On 29/03/11 02:59 PM, Tim Goetze wrote:
[Philipp �berbacher]
Excerpts from Stefano D'Angelo's message of 2011-03-28 22:59:46 +0200:
This means, if you change the port signature and maintain the same
UniqueID, we would have incompatibilities in the LV2 world. If you
create a new plugin or don't touch ports, instead, everything's fine.
Stefano
I'd say you'd even have incompatibilities in LADSPA world. Even fixes in
LADSPA plugins would sometimes need a new ID (This was discussed a while
ago regarding a LADSPA that has an unintuitive port order).
Lacking sufficient knowledge of all the LADSPA hosts out there, I'm
unable to judge how many will cope with the addition of a port to an
existing plugin and how many will not.
/Adding/ a port is probably fine, since hosts can just use the default
value or connect it to silence.
However, "adding" here really means "appending": the new ports must be
added on to the end of the ports (by index). Definitely do NOT change
existing indices for ports, that will definitely break a lot of things
in horrible ways! It's not even possible to properly cope with that
situation.
Cheers,
-dr
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