Hi list, I'm working on version 2 of MusE's safe plugin
scanner which now creates cached text lists of all plugins
found on the system, seven formats: ladspa, dssi, dssi-vst,
LinuxVst, vst, lv2, and our own MESS).
Currently each cache file is a custom xml template describing all
the various features of each plugin found, in one common format.
For six of the formats listed above it went smoothly but when
I made the LV2 section I kept thinking - I'm re-inventing the wheel.
LV2 already uses Turtle text description files, so it was a bit odd
making a converter from/to my xml format to/from lilv ttl scans.
Question: Can rdf, or ladspa rdf, or Turtle files be used to
generally specify ANY type of plugin, so that the various
tools and libraries associated with rdf, lrdf, or ttl or lv2
can read them in a common way?
This would also allow me to introduce lrdf (or something rdf-based)
into MusE and really take advantage of features like enumerated
value strings and so on.
It'd be great if some rdf tool or library function could scan all
my existing ladspa and dssi (and other) plugins for me and present
me with an rdf file so I don't have to do all the work.
Even if the file might lack the ability to fill in those ladspa
enumeration value strings when scanning an unidentifiable plugin.
Thanks.
Tim.