On 04/11/2012 08:27 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:45:15PM +0200, Brendan Jones wrote:
> On 04/11/2012 06:00 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>
>> There is a library named suil whose purpose is to allow an application to
>> require one UI toolkit and that application's plugins to require a different
>> UI toolkit.
>>
>> The suil library itself has compiled plugins that enable different types of
>> embedding (qt4 in gtk2 and gtk2 in qt4 at the moment). These suil plugins
>> need to require two toolkits apiece: the toolkit that is being embedded and
>> the toolkit that is being embedded into.
>
> suil is somewhat parallel to the spec - the host could instantiate
> the plugin on its own (using lv2core) if it wanted to. I guess the
> best way is to consider suil a helper library using lv2core which
> saves the host from doing the heavy lifting.
>
So.. what is a host and what is lv2core?
A host is any application that instantiates an LV2 plugin - e.g. best
known examples are apps like qtractor or ardour. Although there are
others like lv2rack (which doesn't use suil). Eventually I think LV2
will be a drop in replacement for LADSPA plugins, but its not quite
there yet.