Re: [LAD] RFC: Default discovery paths for LADSPA, LRDF, LV2 and DSSI (and more?)

From: Stefano D'Angelo <zanga.mail@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 18:49:17 EEST

2009/6/25 Chris Cannam <cannam@email-addr-hidden-day-breakfast.com>:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Stefano D'Angelo<zanga.mail@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> I am asking this to you as well, Chris, how does this kind of ordering
>> affect discovery?
>
> A library of a given name may exist in more than one place.  Is it
> preferable to allow the non-root user to override the system version
> of the library with a newer, fixed version, or is it preferable to
> ensure that system updates take priority over any possibly antique
> version that the user installed locally when first testing the plugin
> three years ago before it was packaged?

What about using stat() to choose the latest?

>> We're also missing default paths for LADSPA and LRDF on Mac.
>
> SV uses ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA and
> /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA for the plugins, and looks in a
> subdirectory of each called "rdf" for LRDF files.  Same goes for
> Windows (i.e. "%ProgramFiles%\LADSPA Plugins\rdf").  Not that I
> generally build with LRDF support on Windows anyway.

This makes sense to me, if only it could be made "official"...
(windows paths too)

Stefano
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