14 May
2004
14 May
'04
4:10 p.m.
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:19:11PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
This is irrelevant. Xrm has nothing to do with the X protocal, and you can
use it without having an X server. It's just a database manager that was
originally designed to hold X resources, but it's general enough to use
it for whatever you want.
One header file, yes, and then only if you want to support the new
bits.
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FA
On Fri, May 14,
2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
??? Not if the data format is specified. I will fiercely resist any
standard that is defined as a library interface.
I think this is a mistake. Although I know that X does have a protocol
at its core, I am convinced that the reason it has been so successful
(in addition to its feature set) is that it has had a single, standard
stable library interface. I don't know anyone now who *ever* writes X
protocol code, and I've never met anyone (except a few people I once
knew who worked on a commercial X server, and even that was more than
15 years ago). I
don't mind *IFF* the metadata file has a simple, human readable
syntax (no XML please) that can be parsed line by line.
no XML, and yes, parsable line by line, and yes, human readable. *but*
the plan should be to use the supplied library to get and set
values. nobody should be doing it themselves otherwise we end up with
an almighty mess. Wrapping file formats in libraries allows the formats
to change
without us forcing recompilation on anyone. Defining a file format and
believing we got it right is tantamount to a religious act
IMHO. Nobody ever gets it right first time. Even if you use a
framework like XML or xrm, you still have to define the contents.
Its also been a *very* useful approach as JACK has evolved. We have
modified the protocol several times without requiring client
recompilation.
This is an API, not a file format.
The plugins I
made for AMS have modulation inputs, and I don't see what's
Take a side-chain compressor: how can a host know that one input is
for the "main signal" and the other is the side-chain? If you leave
all connections to the user (as in AMS, i think), this is discernible
by a human intelligence, but in something like ardour where the user
expects basic connectivity to be done for them, its a problem.
special about them. An we still have 20 +
something hint bits...
But that's the whole issue. Adding hint after hint after hint
... every one requires a new header file.