On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:44:22PM -0400, Thomas Vecchione wrote: > > While this makes perfect since in flexibility from a programmer > perspective, I wonder how it will affect things from an end-user > perspective, especially if LV2 becomes popular(Which many hope it would)... > > The end user will have some plugins that are 'LV2' that will work in > some 'LV2' hosts but not others. How are they to know? Will they have > to have 'LV2 and supports these features' that they will have to check > off every time to see if it should be working or not? > > Or 'Profiles' that fit a certain set of features?
Hosts will be able to not ever list plugins they can't use, afaik. I think it's likely that something one could call profiles will crystallize, as plugins are made for more or less specific uses. Many effect plugins make sense both in a DAW and a synth, but sound generators like oscillators tend to not make sense in a DAW. Synth plugins need hosts that deal with MIDI (well, perhaps OSC). I mean there will be sets of needs that apply to plugins and hosts. In the worst case we will need a table of what works where :) -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Design for Free Software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
