On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:04:08 -0400 David Robillard <d...@drobilla.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 10:00 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: >> And, of course, URIs are just strings - the fact that they are >> typically written with http at the start etc is just a namespacing >> convention. The lv2 standard could have used >> <e274923af6ffac82ad3f5beebb015380> instead of >> <http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#plugin> and it would still work. > >I've honestly thought a few times that maybe using a custom scheme >would have been better. It's objectively worse in every way, but the >instant people see "http" they lose their damned minds for some reason >:) > >C'est la vie... I disagree. Like many people, if I see what looks like a valid url, then that's what I expect it to be, not some form of labelling. What is even worse, is when there is a problem of some sort with a plugin, and host reports that the (apparent) url doesn't exist! Unless you know what this is you can waste a lot of time having been totally misdirected. Speaking from experience :( -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
