Subject: unique IDs etc Re: [linux-audio-dev] Ladspa Gui's (Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a?)
From: Chris Cannam (cannam_AT_all-day-breakfast.com)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 13:28:28 EEST
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 10:57 am, Steve Harris wrote:
> 2) plugins with the same UID are supposed to be port-compatible,
> though due to developer lazyness this doesnt always happen *cough*
DSSI actually identifies the plugin to the UI by .so and label, not by
unique ID. And there's no such requirement for labels, is there?
The whole thing about unique IDs troubles me though, because they're
supposed to be globally unique, right? So what should you do if you
want to write a .so that could instantiate any number of plugins
dynamically, either by generating them according to some
configuration or by wrappering e.g. an existing directoryful of VST
plugins? You can't possibly guarantee global uniqueness if you don't
even know in advance how many plugins you'll be offering.
Chris
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