[PD] plugin~ vs dssi~

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds like a good plan.  I was unaware of the difference between  
plugin~ and dssi~.  The last piece of the equation is distributing  
easy-to-use binaries and making it easy to load and use plugins :)

.hc

On Jun 20, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just read the recent thread regarding the plugin~ external, and  
> the regrettable problems Kim was having getting a working plugin in  
> host in Pd.
>
> One of the problems here is that plugin~ has a subset of the  
> functionality of dssi~, but yet the 2 projects are still maintained  
> in parallel, with AFAICT no real advantage.
>
> I can only guess the reasons dssi~ is not now the de facto standard  
> for LADSPA and DSSI hosting in Pd:
>
> 	- it has a dependency on liblo
> 	- people assume that dssi~ only hosts DSSI plugins, not realising  
> that DSSI is built on LADSPA?
>
> So I propose the following solutions:
>
> 	- I refactor dssi~ to use the iemnet/mrpeach externals for OSC  
> communications (thus removing the liblo dependency)
> 	- I rename dssi~ to pluginhost~ with a view to extending it to  
> other plugin APIs (VST?) at some later point.
> 	- I include a better help file/documentation (Frank?)
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Finally, can I strongly encourage anyone who finds bugs and/or  
> problems with dssi~ to contact me directly, since I read the list  
> infrequently and am much more likely to respond and offer help  
> quickly if I get direct email.
>
> best,
>
> Jamie
>
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>
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