lv2-plugins install path

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Alessio Treglia <alessio at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>>  2) Introduce new package lv2-legacy-support
>>>     * Upload only to experimental for now
>>>     * Contains symlink /usr/lib/$ARCH/lv2/ → /usr/lib/lv2/
>>>     * Breaks versioned against all current LV2 plugins
>>
>> Just a small addition: that wouldn't be so for LV2 specs [1] as they
>> are platform-independent and therefore fall under /usr/lib/lv2/.
>> Hence:
>>
>>   1. LV2 specs/extension -> /usr/lib/lv2/
>>   2. LV2 plugins -> /usr/lib/${ARCH}/lv2
>
> Unfortunately, you cannot have /u/l/lv2 be both a symlink and a real directory.
>
> If specs are platform independent, shouldn't they be on /usr/share?
> Are they parsed by hosts or plugins?

A related question, how do most hosts load lv2 plugins? I see quite a few
hosts using liblilv. Are there lv2 hosts that do not use liblilv?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler