10 Apr
2011
10 Apr
'11
3:52 p.m.
[Paul Davis]
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Tim Goetze
<tim(a)quitte.de> wrote:
Surely you will understand that I'm not inclined to maintain two
versions of a plugin whose code differs in only one line.
However, as a compromise, I am thinking about moving obsolete plugins
into a separate 'abandoned' package that would not enjoy further
maintenance. It's far from an ideal solution but then again nothing
seems to be.
Following your suggestion and changing the
plugin's UniqueID would
break perfectly good saved session files in these and other properly
designed host applications - instead of *preventing* breakage, it'd
actually *cause* it.
Strongly disagree. The CAPS package would just continue to include the
old version of the plugin. You can't fix this in Ardour in general. As noted,
just appending a
port won't break anything (I think), but the general issue that the
port signature has changed and this invalidates old state for the
plugin is something that definitely goes against everything that we
had in mind when LADSPA was designed.
In that case, it is rather unfortunate that the specification bears
not a trace of your thoughts on this matter.
Perhaps you want to make an effort to fix it?
Cheers, Tim