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2011/7/6 David Robillard :

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> For users, there are tarballs of all released extensions,  ...

> Tarballs are released, and announcements are made.  What is the problem?

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The problem is: tarballs is plural.

For LV2 you have to download x tars, compile, install and

when you're finally done, your new LV2-plugin still doesn't compile,

cause it would have needed an experimental extension...

my experience so far. Ah right. I should wait for the final release ;)
>> A second tarball, including all currently known LV2 plugins.

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>> This could be called  >>Official-LV2-plugin-pack_2011-08-01.tar.bz2<<

>> and could be updated regularly.

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> I don't think it's appropriate or wise to create any such "official"

> thing.  Plugins are written by diverse authors in diverse languages with

> diverse build systems.

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> ....  Centralization is not a win.

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I thinks it can be. I'm not talking about centralizing different projects, but

*final* distribution centralization, a kind of central mirror for

spread projects.
Take ladspa as an example:

There are X websites with ladspa-packages, containing diverse plugins.

Now every maintainer (and interested user) has to track those sites,

downloading from X locations...

My thought: If there was a central collecting point, most maintainers

could simply download

one tar and make the content ready for their distro.

Plugin creators would also benefit: They simply would have to send

their current sources to the collecting point, knowing it

soon became public and spread.
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> I think actively maintaining, hosting, distributing, and guiding the

> development of *extensions* is a job that lv2plug.in should ... do ..

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So maybe my request should have gone to that address.

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> Don't assume that developers actually *want* everything to be

> accessible ;)  I assure you several developers are actively working to

> design, solidify, implement, and release new extensions that will

> provide us with new advanced plugin capabilities as quickly as possible.

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Pleased to hear that :)

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E.R.

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