On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Steve Harris wrote:
there is one:
it seems consensus that making RDF mandatory for
hosts should be avoided.
Absolutly. I think scales and enumerations are not mandatory (Matthias
disagrees, but I dont see any evidence ot the contrary).
Just as my personal conclusion of that thread:
We do not lose anything if we accept either the proposal by Tim or Fons or
something in between. Both proposals are binary compatible with the
current standard. Plugin-writers and host-developers would still have the
choice to use the extension or to ignore it and use e.g. the RDF extension
instead. And I doubt that new plugin writer get scared by some slightly
extended ladspa.h, at least as long as it keeps to be as well-documented
as it is now. I will now shut up and hope that an extension will be agreed
upon. Once Tom (and hopefully others) follow the new standard, I will
update AMS. And keep in mind: Extending LADSPA does not mean that all
plugins need to be modified. It's only that cases like e.g. the reverb
presets can be fixed in a clean way.
Matthias
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