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diff --git a/core.lv2/README b/core.lv2/README index ebb33a0..4e570f7 100644 --- a/core.lv2/README +++ b/core.lv2/README @@ -1,30 +1,26 @@ LV2 --- -LV2 is a standard for plugins and matching host applications, primarily -targeted at audio processing and generation. +LV2 gives programmers the ability to write audio processors (or "plugins") in +C/C++ which can be dynamically loaded into a range of applications (or +"hosts"). -LV2 is a successor to LADSPA, created to address the limitations of LADSPA -which many applications have outgrown. Compared to LADSPA, all plugin data -is moved from the code to a separate data file, and the code has been made as -generic as possible. As a result, LV2 can be independently extended -(retaining compatibility wherever possible), and virtually any feasible -plugin features can be implemented in an LV2 plugin. +This core specification is deliberately as short and simple as possible, but is +designed so that extensions can be defined to add more advanced features. More information about LV2 can be found at <http://lv2plug.in>. -This package is the "core" LV2 specification in usual source package form. -The major version of this package refers to the LV2 specification revision -contained, while the minor version refers only to this package. - -Application authors aren't required to depend on this package (including lv2.h -in source distributions is acceptable) but any system with LV2 plugins should -have the LV2 bundle contained in this package installed somewhere in the LV2 -path (it contains plugin classes and other useful information). - -Please see README file for installation instructions (this package doesn't -really fit into the usual 'library', 'program', etc. categories). - -Distributions are encouraged to include this package. +Applications that use LV2 plugins should depend on this package. It includes a +header, pkg-config file, and lv2config (a header installation utility required +to compile against LV2 core and/or extensions). To compile against LV2, build +scripts can check for the pkg-config package "lv2core", or simply check for the +header "lv2/lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core/lv2.h". + +Please package these components in a single package (e.g. do not split the +headers, data, and program into separate packages). This package, in its +entirety, is a build and run time dependency of any code that uses LV2. +Distributions are encouraged to include it with package name "lv2core". Note +that lv2config must be run after installation of any LV2 specifications, +including this one. -- David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> |