Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)
From: David Olofson (david_AT_olofson.net)
Date: Sun Dec 08 2002 - 02:06:15 EET

On Sunday 08 December 2002 00.52, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:03:14 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > Are we going to have LADSPA, and soon OAPI (or whatever it'll be)
> > - and in a year or two, another API, effectively merging LADSPA
> > and OAPI?
> >
> > Why? What is it that LADSPA does that would be so complicated
> > that an instrument API must not support it?
>
> Nothing, OAPI or whatever will be a superset I imagine, but that
> implies that LADSPA will still be simpler.

Well, I don't think that can be avoided... There aren't enough
"expendable" features in LADSPA that it would make up for the new
features, by far.

//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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