Re: [LAD] Saving plugin presets

To be utterly pragmatic, I think at this moment the best approach for this problem would be an evolutionary one. Just implement whatever format you feel like and see if it takes. No one is going to sue you, although you are guaranteed to get your fair share of critics, no matter what. At the worst case, this particular situation is so utterly simple that it should be trivial to convert one format to another if the need arises. If it helps in the end I chose for my project INI files just because it was a Qt app and Qt provides a nifty INI parser (QSettings) with some merging capabilities (concurrent Qt processes can make changes without corrupting the file and those are easily synchronized.) But that was me just being lazy, I guess. As for the directory structure it went something like: Global: /usr/share/ladspa/presets/plugin-name/preset-name.ini Local: ~/.ladspa/presets/plugin-name/preset-name.ini It is a ladspa-centric app, so it seemed appropriate. I don't recall now if ladspa's can be versioned, but it should be easy to insert a version number somewhere (in the path, in the ini file...)