On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:28:17 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >> There is chasm both broad and deep between > >> > >> "plugin, show your GUI now" > >> > >> and an actual implementation of such functionality. > > > >Yeah osc.udp://localhost:2134/ui/show ;) I'm very much in favour of > >simple, UNDERcomplicated solutions. If you make its easy to do almost > >everything and possible to do hard things I think you get the best > >protocol / API / design. > > for DSSI, this seems great. but for LADSPA it seems like a major > change in philosophy, one that would turn LADSPA into DSSI. i am not > opposed to that, in fact i think its a fairly good idea, but i think > we need to be clear about that if that is in fact the general idea.
To be clear, it make no changes to LADSPA - its a completely external spec, and doesnt include any of the plugin stuff from DSSI. > >Its out of process. Sounds like torben wants to swallow the plugin UI, > >thats kinda neat, didn't think anyone would bother, but we should take > >that into account. > > yeah, returning an XID sounds like a nice touch there. Yup, I dont really understand the X realted issues, but I'm happy to let it be someone elses problem. > btw, i guess we should get busy with LADSPA v2 soon, eh? Yup, but I dont think we got consensus on the metadata format, which is kinda fundamnetal. For the record, I (still) think we should use a restricted subset of RDF/N3. - Steve
