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On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 14:39 -0500, David Robillard wrote:
> New idea: it is tempting to define a very simple turtle document format

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> for hosts to signify what they support, then this kind of compatibility

> information could be automatically generated as well (and in a much more

> useful form than a human could put together).  The information is

> already there for plugins.  As far as I'm concerned the lack of

> automatically generated documentation (and/or machine readable data in

> general) is pretty much the sole reason for every single complaint

> related to this whole thing.  This way is also decentralized, but the

> results for all "known" implementations could be hosted at lv2plug.in

> (or anywhere else) for convenience.

>

> I am surprised I didn't think of this before, but it seems to be a

> pretty good idea.  All that is needed as far as maintenance goes is for

> hosts to supply a simple turtle document that says "I implement foo and

> bar and baz extensions".  The rest can be compiled into whatever fancy

> human readable form you want, for every single plugin out there, by a

> tool.  If I provide a template, would anyone be willing to put together

> these documents?  I will gladly write the tool if the data is there, and

> the problem will be solved, and a convention set that solves it in the

> future with basically no effort involved.

As a start, I'll have a try with collecting a list of hosts and plugins

and what features(/extensions) they provide or require right here on the

list ;)
Longterm it might be useful to have a way to query for this locally. For

an application that builds a matrix for the hosts and plugins you have

installed. Now, it's clear where to look for plugins, but some

convention/mechanism would be needed to fin the host RDF files, right?
--

Thorsten Wilms
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