Re: First deprecate APIs and then remove them in the next major version

[Robin Gareus <robin gareus org>]

On 12/24/2017 04:01 PM, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> On Samstag, 23. Dezember 2017 10:47:08 CET Paul Davis wrote:
> > ​actually, my impression from interactions with the author is that GTK
> > didn't make their life miserable at all.

It was main gdk in that context. A basic window and event system
abstraction.

> > however, the issues that have been mentioned before regarding host/plugin
> > toolkit interactions did make their (and users') lives miserable, hence the
> > switch.​
>
> The trend among DAW apps is going towards process separation for plugins (one 
> process for all instances of a plugin). No plans for that in Ardour yet?

Process-separation requires a context-switch which is very expensive and
does not scale [1]. There are no plans to add this to Ardour.

ciao,
robin

[1]
http://lists.ardour.org/pipermail/ardour-users-ardour.org/2015-August/027373.html