default plugin URL is not stable
Issue #16
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I was caught off guard by the new URL prefix, leading to my plugins not loading in ardour.
I had some discussion on IRC, and rgareus suggested not to use bitbucket in the URL at all, since you don't control that domain.
Comments (1)
The goal is to provide a permanent URI that does not need to ever change for a given plugin.
From a quick discussion on #ardour IRC: Since the URI has changed in f1c3d6b180047 already, let's take this as an opportunity to move forward.
(a) it would be nice to allow to set/override the URI using meta-data in the plugin source itself (this allows for backwards compat or set user-sites, user-URL to src/documentation of the plugin) -- current URLs don't even resolve to some useful place (eg. https://faustlv2.bitbucket.io/CharacterCompressorMono is a 404) and will break once there's a 2nd plugin with the same name.
(b) for new plugins a generic site-agnostic URN a-la urn:faustlv2:[AUTHOR-NAME:]PLUGIN-NAME might be best. That'll be future proof and permanent. including a brand-name/author-name will also help to keep it unique.
I don't know what faust2vst does for generating a unique-ID, maybe some related concept already exists.