[LV2] Recursive LV2_DIR searching?

Stefan Kersten sk at k-hornz.de
Thu Mar 15 03:11:15 PDT 2012


On 3/15/12 12:41 AM, David Robillard wrote:
> A thought I hadn't considered from Paul Davis, when having troubles with
> the header symlink stuff:
>
> Should maybe bundles all be installed with URI-style paths?  That would
> mean for extensions pkg-config files could simply set -I to the LV2
> bundle dir, and everything is self-contained.  It would be possible to
> get the path of any extension or plugin or plugin-package without
> searching, since there is a 1:1(ish) mapping from URI to path.  There's
> no more potential bundle name clashing issues, since they can't clash by
> definition.  Seems kinda nice.

i think this is a very good idea, simple and clean. recursive searching 
is not a problem imo. for me the header symlinking was rather confusing 
in the beginning and i would much prefer a simple bundle/include path 
relationship.

<sk>



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