Re: [LAD] [ann] CAPS 0.4.5

From: David Robillard <d@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Apr 01 2011 - 21:18:00 EEST

On 30/03/11 09:15 AM, Paul Giblock wrote:
> From the docs for LV2_Descriptor::URI:
>
> A globally unique, case-sensitive identifier for this plugin type.
>
> All plugins with the same URI MUST be compatible in terms of 'port
> signature', meaning they have the same number of ports, same port
> shortnames, and roughly the same functionality. URIs should probably
> contain a version number (or similar) for this reason.
>
> Rationale: When serializing session/patch/etc files, hosts MUST refer
> to a loaded plugin by the plugin URI only. In the future loading a
> plugin with this URI MUST yield a plugin with the same ports (etc)
> which is 100% compatible.
>
> --Paul
>

Please refer to LV2 4.0[1] for anything related to this (compatibility,
versioning, etc.). One of the main improvements in that release was very
solidly defining this.

-dr

http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core

P.S. Please do not top post on mailing lists...

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