[LAD] Programming LV2 plugin from scratch tutorial video series

David Robillard d at drobilla.net
Tue Oct 19 19:04:08 CEST 2021


On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 10:00 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> And, of course, URIs are just strings - the fact that they are
> typically written with http at the start etc is just a namespacing
> convention. The lv2 standard could have used
> <e274923af6ffac82ad3f5beebb015380> instead of
> <http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#plugin> and it would still work.

I've honestly thought a few times that maybe using a custom scheme
would have been better.  It's objectively worse in every way, but the
instant people see "http" they lose their damned minds for some reason
:)

C'est la vie...

-- 
dr


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