Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Ladspa Gui's (Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a?)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 12:57:52 EEST
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:26:21 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> An implementation disadvantage is the need to produce two separate
> object files (the .so and the GUI), to ensure that they can both be
> discovered by the host, and to keep them in sync -- for example to
> make sure the GUI knows about the most up-to-date set of plugin
> ports. Of course the GUI can always load the plugin and query it
> itself, but most probably wouldn't want to do that.
I'm not convinced this is a problem:
1) its equivalent to having a plugin/library inconsistency, so the build
or packaging system should take care of it
2) plugins with the same UID are supposed to be port-compatible, though
due to developer lazyness this doesnt always happen *cough*
- Steve
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