[LAD] Programming LV2 plugin from scratch tutorial video series

[David Robillard]

On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 19:17 +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:04:08 -0400
> David Robillard <d at drobilla.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> I disagree.
> Like many people, if I see what looks like a valid url, then that's
> what I
> expect it to be, not some form of labelling.

In the case of all the LV2 specs, they are.

http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#Plugin

>  What is even worse, is when there
> is a problem of some sort with a plugin, and host reports that the
> (apparent)
> url doesn't exist!

That's rather strange.  Most hosts don't even do internet access
whatsoever, and even if they did, I can't imagine why they'd be trying
to fetch these ones.

Which host?

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dr