[Fedora-packaging] Filtering requires

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:04:11PM +0200, Brendan Jones wrote:
> 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.
>
So -- I write a plugin and it can be hosted by any number of applications?

-Toshio
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