On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:19:39PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > This is intentional. LV2 is not intended to include every single > feature that everyone might want. It is intended for it to > be /possible/ to implement any feature someone might want (this is why > LV2 actually exists in a useful state and, say, GMPI does not...)
I don't buy this. This is not about complicated or esoteric 'features' but _basic infrastructure_. I didn't have to torture my mind to dream up the simple things I mentioned - they were plain obvious after reading the LV2 specs for about 15 minutes. That is several orders of magnitude less than the GMPI discussion. Do you really think that run(nframes, framecount) is so horribly complicated compared to run(nframes) that the average plugin writer would run (pun intended) away screaming ? Do you really think that init(samplerate, periodsize, priority, groupid) instead of init(samplerate) would complicate a host to the extent that nobody would dare write one ? Any objection you may have to 'periodsize' or any of the other arguments in that list would apply equally to 'samplerate' - many plugins don't need it. And it can be provided by an extension. Everything can be provided by an extension. We need nothing at all. None of these parameters are 'features' in the sense that they add user-level functionality. They are just basic low-level technical infrastructure required to make some things work, and cost almost nothing. This is not the sort of thing that should be negociated between a host and a plugin via a high-level protocol. A host that does not provide such basic information is IMHO just broken. I don't have any problems with the way LV2 provides for future extensions - it's well done. But requiring such a mechanism to obtain basic low-level information is as silly as offering the gas tank on a car as an option (I assume you would include the wheels as standard). -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano รจ questo ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
