On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 14:39 -0500, David Robillard wrote: > New idea: it is tempting to define a very simple turtle document format > for hosts to signify what they support, then this kind of compatibility > information could be automatically generated as well (and in a much more > useful form than a human could put together). The information is > already there for plugins. As far as I'm concerned the lack of > automatically generated documentation (and/or machine readable data in > general) is pretty much the sole reason for every single complaint > related to this whole thing. This way is also decentralized, but the > results for all "known" implementations could be hosted at lv2plug.in > (or anywhere else) for convenience. > > I am surprised I didn't think of this before, but it seems to be a > pretty good idea. All that is needed as far as maintenance goes is for > hosts to supply a simple turtle document that says "I implement foo and > bar and baz extensions". The rest can be compiled into whatever fancy > human readable form you want, for every single plugin out there, by a > tool. If I provide a template, would anyone be willing to put together > these documents? I will gladly write the tool if the data is there, and > the problem will be solved, and a convention set that solves it in the > future with basically no effort involved.
As a start, I'll have a try with collecting a list of hosts and plugins and what features(/extensions) they provide or require right here on the list ;) Longterm it might be useful to have a way to query for this locally. For an application that builds a matrix for the hosts and plugins you have installed. Now, it's clear where to look for plugins, but some convention/mechanism would be needed to fin the host RDF files, right? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev