[LAU] Fwd: [LAD] minimal LV2

[Paul Davis]

mis-replied to gabriel only .....

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From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [LAD] minimal LV2
To: "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <gabrbedd at gmail.com>


On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
<gabrbedd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
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>> Can an LV2 extension redefine everything except the
>> mimimum required for discovery ? This includes the
>> way ports are described, the way the host is supposed
>> to call the plugin etc. ?
>
> Pretty much, yes.  Here's how:

but given that the result would be:

  1) a host that explicitly understood some alternative plugin API
  2) a plugin that, other than its manfest.ttl file and accompanying
.so file, was barely an LV2 plugin at all
  3) more specifically, a plugin that would not run in the majority
of LV2 hosts

its difficult to see why you wouldn't simply define your own plugin
API. the discovery process has to be one of the least interesting
parts of LV2 (or any plugin API that i can think of) and co-opting it
appears to me to save oneself almost no work at all.