Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA "Unique" IDs
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 12:36:59 EEST
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:36:41 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 9:00 am, Steve Harris wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:17:03AM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> > > /* This identifier can be used as a unique, case-sensitive
> > > identifier for the plugin type within the plugin file.
> > > Plugin types should be identified by file and label rather than
> > > by index or plugin name, which may be changed in new plugin
> > > versions. Labels must not contain white-space characters. */
> > >
> > > To me this makes it pretty plain that filename and label is at
> > > least intended to be a valid unique ID within your filesystem,
> > > and in practice I'd expect it to be an effective id for the
> > > plugin anywhere in the world.
> >
> > I think it should be: local filenames are unique, and labels are
> > required to be unique in the file.
>
> Is that different from what I said?
No, sorry, pre-coffee abiguous grammar, I wasn't correcting you, I meant:
I think it should be, *because* local filenames are unique, and labels are
required to be unique in the file.
But it was also a pretty pointless comment. Sorry.
/me gets coffee
- Steve
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