2011/7/6 David Robillard <d...@drobilla.net>: > > For users, there are tarballs of all released extensions, ... > Tarballs are released, and announcements are made. What is the problem? > The problem is: tarballs is plural.
For LV2 you have to download x tars, compile, install and when you're finally done, your new LV2-plugin still doesn't compile, cause it would have needed an experimental extension... my experience so far. Ah right. I should wait for the final release ;) >> A second tarball, including all currently known LV2 plugins. >> This could be called >>Official-LV2-plugin-pack_2011-08-01.tar.bz2<< >> and could be updated regularly. > > I don't think it's appropriate or wise to create any such "official" > thing. Plugins are written by diverse authors in diverse languages with > diverse build systems. > > .... Centralization is not a win. > I thinks it can be. I'm not talking about centralizing different projects, but *final* distribution centralization, a kind of central mirror for spread projects. Take ladspa as an example: There are X websites with ladspa-packages, containing diverse plugins. Now every maintainer (and interested user) has to track those sites, downloading from X locations... My thought: If there was a central collecting point, most maintainers could simply download one tar and make the content ready for their distro. Plugin creators would also benefit: They simply would have to send their current sources to the collecting point, knowing it soon became public and spread. > > I think actively maintaining, hosting, distributing, and guiding the > development of *extensions* is a job that lv2plug.in should ... do .. > So maybe my request should have gone to that address. > > Don't assume that developers actually *want* everything to be > accessible ;) I assure you several developers are actively working to > design, solidify, implement, and release new extensions that will > provide us with new advanced plugin capabilities as quickly as possible. > Pleased to hear that :) -- E.R. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev