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On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 23:22 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:

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> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:05:07 -0500

> David Robillard  wrote:

>=20

> > I was tinkering with saving sessions in a format that is just a

> > directory with a shell script with a standard name (and perhaps some

> > standard arguments) which you call to restore or do other things.

> >=20

> > Not sure if that's a really feasible solution in general, but it's

> > basically the only way to save sessions in a way that don't require a

> > specific session manager to load, and doesn't impose any file formats.

> >

> > Actually being able to restore sessions decently from a script requires

> > a few more sophisticated jack command line utilities (like a

> > jack_connect that can wait for clients and so on), but those are useful

> > anyway.

>=20

> Just a quick thought: How do you get the programs to save their state/fil=

e?

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> Does this not require at least some incoming message handling by the indi=

vidual programs?

This idea obviously only applies as a portable way to store sessions.
The question you just asked is essentially "how do session managers

work?"  Well, in various ways - we have several.  Trying to make a

common protocol or whatever isn't "interoperability", it's making yet

another session management API/protocol.
-dr
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