Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Extension for Extra GUI Data

From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jun 26 2006 - 11:07:11 EEST

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:30:40 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:
> Basically all you've added is port grouping. Sure, there's no binary
> breakage now - no kidding, you havn't had to change anything yet. All
> you've done is added a bunch of metadata that has no reason to be in
> binary code at all, but you've done it in a way that's going to break
> horribly as soon as you try to add something.

No, it also adds rendering of port values. Though that is somewhat
limited.
 
> Plus, it's completely useless for GUIs in a separate process, while LV2
> is not (it's just a data file, anything can load it, it's not even
> architechture dependent).
>
> Just my two cents, but definitely not the right thing.

That's possibly a bit harsh. I think it's reasonable to say that based on
our experiences of LADSPA we know that's not the best way to go.

- Steve
Received on Mon Jun 26 12:15:02 2006

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