On 01/16/2015 10:27 PM, Spekular R wrote: > > @vesa I'm not sure about removing it. If we could offer it as a > separate download that'd be a good solution imo, >
How is that a good solution? We'd still have to maintain the code, only now it'd be even less useful (if that's possible) because most people wouldn't even know about it. > but we currently can't afaik. > Sure we can. They just have to be compiled against a specific LMMS version. > Tangent, but making all our synths/plugins modular and just having the > defaults preinstalled would be super neat. > What would be the benefit of this? Are you envisioning a future where we have thousands of native LMMS plugins? If we have plugins that we maintain and support, I see no reason at all to exclude them from the release builds. Distributing external compiled plugins for LMMS is already technically possible (you just have to compile a version of the plugin for each major LMMS version * each platform). However, since we don't have a stable external API for plugins, I doubt anyone is going to start developing LMMS-plugins outside of the LMMS source tree. Distributing closed-source commercial plugins for LMMS is also impossible due to GPL (a LMMS plugin only works in LMMS and is thus seen as an extension of the software, as far as licensing is concerned) so I can't see a reason someone wouldn't want their plugin included in LMMS (and we could just include it anyway, because GPL). > Also plugin folders. > If we at some point have 2-3 times more plugins than now, then sure... right now it'd be kind of pointless. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
