On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Thomas Grill wrote:

List of new features:

• fixed crash when there's no "VST_PATH" environment string found
• included pd path into VST search path
• made thread of editor window low priority
• introduced A LOT of attributes to get information about the plugin
• make editor window manipulable by patch
• plugin can be changed with plug attribute

Hmmm, I think it would be a good idea to "eliminate" k_vst~ and make vst~ run for linux too. Would it be fine by you to apply a patch for vst~ to make it use vstlib on linux?