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re, On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:17:30PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 05:45:58 +0100, Mike Rawes wrote: > > > Will it be possible for the same plugin to implement both v1 and > > > v2? > > > > > > (I would have thought that was probably a necessity, but then I > > > don't write plugins.) > > > > Ooh. That's a good point... > > > > I've written a few plugins, and the thought of maintaining two versions of > > otherwise identical plugins doesn't appeal. It is possible to combine two > > versions in the source, and determine which version to build at compile time. > > My vague plan was to stop supporting v1 directly and to provide a v1 > meta plugin wrapper that presents my v2 plugins via a v1 interface. > > The alternaive is that I stop supporting v1 alltogether. The old versions > will still be avialable ofcourse. gosh, i'm just writing a library for video plugins, inspired to LADSPA "inspired" means that it is about a simple header, which doesn't requires a library. see http://livido.dyne.org/livido-22apr04.tar.gz we are allready quite some people focusing on it, from different emerging video applications as FreeJ, VeeJay, PD/PDP, LiVES what do you say guys, on the long term it's really bad to have this header-oriented spec? or you're doing the change just now that everybody joined the train, wouldn't have been a good choice since the beginning? ;> i'm not provoking, i'm just trying to learn :) from what i could really understand from this thread. the header/lib dependency is the main thing which differentiates the LADSPA v1 from v2, seen from an architectural point of view. would have been a good choice since the beginning, to have it as a lib? thanks & respect, - -- jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Cryptographically signed mail, see http://gnupg.org iD8DBQFApSLwWLCC1ltubZcRAohEAJ95ZHdJ+8KfIvKDks83yFvi71/WDACePJPO EZgd5JGmJcvE09DfrupTeq0= =LF+l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
