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Add a proper roadmap
Makes sense to have this as part of the repo.
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# Roadmap
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Yabridge's VST2 and VST3 bridging are feature complete and should work great,
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but there are still some other features that may be worth implementing. This
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page lists some of those.
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# Short-ish term
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- [ARA](https://www.celemony.com/en/service1/about-celemony/technologies)
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support for VST3 plugins. The ARA SDK has recently been [open
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source](https://github.com/Celemony/ARA_SDK), so we can now finally start
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working on this.
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# Longer term
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- [CLAP](https://github.com/free-audio/clap) plugin bridging. Implementing this
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only makes sense once Windows-only CLAP plugins start appearing.
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- An easier [updater](https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/51) through
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a new `yabridgectl update` command for distros that don't package yabridge.
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# For a major release
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- Completely remove the now deprecated symlink-based installation method from
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yabridgectl.
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- Replace the use of `notify-send` for notifications with using `libdbus`
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directly. Most systems will have both available by default, but some less
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common distros split `notify-send` from the rest of the `libnotify` package.
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- Possibly combine the `yabridge-host` and `yabridge-group` binaries to save
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some disk space as 95% of their code overlaps.
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- Consider adding an option for yabridgectl to set up VST2 plugins in `~/.vst`.
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As discussed in a couple places already doing so would come with a number of
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downsides and potential pitfalls so this may not happen.
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- Consider chainloading the real `libyabridge-vst2.so` and `libyabridge-vst3.so`
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files from smaller stub libraries. This would avoid having to rerun
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`yabridgectl sync` after an upgrade, and it would save disk space on systems
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without support for reflinks.
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# Somewhere in the future, possibly
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- REAPER's vendor specific [VST2.4](https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/vst/vst_ext.php)
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and
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[VST3](https://github.com/justinfrankel/reaper-sdk/blob/main/sdk/reaper_vst3_interfaces.h)
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extensions.
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- [Presonus' extensions](https://presonussoftware.com/en_US/developer) to the
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VST3 interfaces. All of these extensions have been superseded by official VST3
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interfaces in later versions of the VST3 SDK, so it's unlikely that there are
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many plugins that still rely on these older extensions.
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