On 11/09/2009 06:39 AM, David Robillard wrote:
New idea: it is tempting to define a very simple turtle document format
for hosts to signify what they support, then this kind of compatibility
information could be automatically generated as well (and in a much more
useful form than a human could put together). The information is
already there for plugins. As far as I'm concerned the lack of
automatically generated documentation (and/or machine readable data in
general) is pretty much the sole reason for every single complaint
related to this whole thing. This way is also decentralized, but the
results for all "known" implementations could be hosted at lv2plug.in
(or anywhere else) for convenience.
I am surprised I didn't think of this before, but it seems to be a
pretty good idea. All that is needed as far as maintenance goes is for
hosts to supply a simple turtle document that says "I implement foo and
bar and baz extensions". The rest can be compiled into whatever fancy
human readable form you want, for every single plugin out there, by a
tool. If I provide a template, would anyone be willing to put together
these documents? I will gladly write the tool if the data is there, and
the problem will be solved, and a convention set that solves it in the
future with basically no effort involved.
I will work on the docs.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd