Hi, Stefano D'Angelo wrote: > 2007/9/6, elthariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> IMHO, i think a freshmeat-style site for linux audio plugins is just what we >> need. it must say if the plugin work correctly from a technical point of >> view. It may allows user to add tags on a plugins (like 'electro' >> 'distortion' 'classical') and allows other user to rate the pertinence of >> the tag. > > Hi all, > what about setting up an Internet service to find, download and > install plugins directly from audio applications?
just for info - GStreamer has such a concept. Its currently only used by totem on ubuntu. The nice things are: * it works hand-in-hand with the underlying distro (so when you update your packages, you get also new version of those plugins) * applications don't need to be restarted Stefan > Maybe a library can be developed to do this, containing all the needed > stuff to properly interface with the packaging system of each > distro/OS (or in case there aren't any, download the source and tell > the user to compile it) and maybe also downloading the packages > directly from the repository of the given distro (or the official > source tarballs). > What do you think about it? Is it feasible? > Just my 2 cents. > > Stefano > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
