Why is the plugin manifest not bundled into the binary?

[multivac61]

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Thank you for all your hard work on this project. Very impressive.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't it be easier to bundle the plugins manifest inside the binary and skip the installation phase, e.g., to "/Library/Application Support/Cardinal/"? I see this as a huge improvement over VCV Rack, where the manifest is not known at runtime due to networking.

Packaging the manifest into the binary would also make it easier to package and distribute (just copy/paste the binary)

BTW I have packaged couple new module vendors in my fork. Happy to provide individual PRs if you want.

[multivac61]

Additional benefit is that you could have multiple versions of Cardinal installed at the same time without having them all depend on the same manifest.