[LAU] LV2, DSSI and the future of plugins

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Tom Szilagyi <tomszilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is really missing from LV2 is a standard way for plugins to
> persistently save their own instance data. In essence, what is needed
> is that the host provide the plugin with an "instance key" of some
> kind (guaranteed by the host to uniquely, persistently identify that
> particular plugin instance) so the plugin could save/restore whatever
> data it needs based on that key.

this does exist. unfortunately, there are two variants on the idea:

this is one of them (and the one that ardour supports best at
present):  http://lv2plug.in/ns/doc/html/persist_8h.html