This will make it possible to run background tasks in a type safe way.
Sadly, this does mean that every plugin now needs to define the type
alias and constructor function since Rust does not yet support defaults
for associated types.
Instead of the previous technically-unsound approach. While it wouldn't
cause any issues in practice, it did break Rust's guarantees. That was a
design choice after adding support for editors in NIH-plug, but this is
probably the better long term solution.
The downside is that all uses of `param.value` now need to be changed to
`param.value()`.
Only a couple of these functions would be needed during initialization.
In the next couple commits ProcessContext will get a way to access
auxiliary IO, so this really had to be separated.
This is a breaking change requiring a small change to plugin
implementations.
The reason why `Pin<&dyn Params>` was used was more as a hint to
indicate that the object must last for the plugin's lifetime, but `Pin`
doesn't enforce that. It also makes the APIs a lot more awkward.
Requiring the use of `Arc` fixes the following problems:
- When storing the params object in the wrapper, the `ParamPtr`s are
guaranteed to be stable.
- This makes it possible to access the `Params` object without acquiring
a lock on the plugin, this is very important for implementing
plugin-side preset management.
- It enforces immutability on the `Params` object.
- And of course the API is much nicer without a bunch of unsafe code to
work around Pin's limitations.
They are now two separate types with slightly different options. I had
these merged initially because they're 95% the same, and I thought it
would be fun to have weird distributions for integer parameters, but
that doesn't really work because hosts and the plugin APIs expect the
steps to be linear. And if you're going to have an unstepped integer
parameter, might as well use FloatParam with rounding.
Because non-linear ranges are no longer possible with IntParam, the
types have been split up to make everything much more readable instead
of adding a parameterizing the range type with another type family.
