On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Chris Cannam <can...@all-day-breakfast.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Paul Davis <p...@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote: >> [X] This plugin was discovered but can't be used without hacking this >> host and recompiling because its uses an extension that isn't >> currently supported. >> >> That kind of PITA? :) > > That kind of PITA, for every new plugin that is installed, but perhaps > the bigger problem is what to do about optional extensions. The > plugin may run without them, but for all you know, it may run in a way > that is not really satisfactory for most real users of it. Warn them > at install time and they'll certainly have forgotten by the time the > plugin actually gets used, or at least will be unable to recognise the > symptom.
Also -- are you, like me, bored with LADSPA plugins crashing your host in tedious, obvious ways? How about an LV2 plugin that expects a particular extension but doesn't really need it so marks it as optional, then turns out not to have been tested without it -- and, wouldn't you know, every host except yours happens to support that extension? Wouldn't you love to be the first host to run the untested code path in production? (I freely admit that this is a sort of FUD, but it happens to be a FUD that is playing on my own mind at the moment. Reassure me.) Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
