25 Jun
2009
25 Jun
'09
3:02 p.m.
2009/6/25 Jan Weil <jan.weil(a)web.de>
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 05:47:23PM +0200, Stefano
D'Angelo wrote:
It is reasonable for LADSPA hosts to show duplicate versions of a plugin,
for LV2 I guess the user would have to choose which implementation to use
instead (this is because of URIs), unless there are better ways to handle
this... Dave?
Stefano
In case of multiple occourrences, myabe it's
better to check for stat()'s
st_mtime to decide which one to load? However, I don't see any of such
mechanisms officially specified anywhere (apart from the "If present,
this
should contain a colon-separated path indicating
directories that should
be
searched (in order) when loading plugin
types." in ladspa.h, which
really
means nothing)...
In my opinion, the host should not try to decide anything in this case.
Don't try to be clever. Just present all of the available versions to
the user and let him/her choose. Most of the time you don't want
multiple versions of your plugins on your system and, what is more, you
might even not be aware that there is a conflict. Of course, this is not
the way PATH-like variables are usually used, but even in the case of
PATH we know similar problems (multiple versions of jackd etc.).