On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:19:21PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:53:13 +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: > > > If the GUI is in a separate process and connected by e.g. OSC, it > > could as well be on a machine that doesn't have the plugin files. > > Or that has a different version of them (for perfectly good reasons). > > To ensure consistency the GUI should get its plugin descriptions from > > the host anyway. This works even with POL (Plain Old Ladspa). > > True enough, but with POL if the frontend and backend mahcines are different > architectures or operating systems then you have a problem.
If send the raw binary data, yes, that's Inviting Trouble (IT). But if it's correctly OSC encoded there shouldn't be a problem. Anyway I guess a host would not use the raw LADSPA data, but a rather a more general format that it could use to describe its internal modules or other plugin formats as well. The GUI doesn't need to know if a module is built-in, LADSPA, LV2, or any other format. One more reason for not having it read the LV2 itself. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!
