[LV2] Lost due to no documentation on writing LV2 hosts

[Juan Linietsky]

Been giving this a try again, thanks for the effort, but documentation is
still so bad. I'm using lilv and here are some problems I have:

- I notice that a lot of plugins are stereo and mono. I remember from the
LV1 days, that if you found a mono plugin, it was enough to just instance
it twice. Here, not all mono plugins have a stereo version and many times
there is no effective way to tell (if my host is stereo) how to ignore the
mono version of the plugin in the listing.

- When instantiating a plugin from the host, the host is supposed to pass
an array of LV2 features. Those are not defined anywhere, or documented so
I will happily assume that I'm not going to pass anything and everything is
going to work great, am I right?

Thanks



On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:18 PM Sylvain Leroux <sylvain at chicoree.fr> wrote:

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> As someone currently struggling while exploring the sources and the
> ref docs of LV2 I can only encourage those documentation efforts.
>
> Thanks a lot Mark for that great initiative!
>
> On 05/10/2018 06:55 PM, Mark D. McCurry wrote:
> > On 05-10, David Robillard wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 10:43 -0400, Mark D. McCurry wrote:
> >>> Rather than just throwing that out there and leaving, here's a
> >>> very rough skeleton of how I'd expect such a document to feel
> >>> like:
> >>> http://fundamental-code.com/tmp/lv2-host-perspecitive.html
> >>
> >> Awesome, thanks.  Would be good to toss in a repo to develop, can
> >> we have the source?
> >
> > Sure thing. FalkTX was asking about the source the other day, so
> > I've already uploaded a copy to:
> > https://gist.github.com/fundamental/f918f6704f6c01cd22ab1c489ac28578
> >
> >  --Mark
> >
> >
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