[gmpi] Re: Instruments done, moving on to "Plugin Files"

All of these "bundling" ideas are impractical, in practice, across
platforms. The best thing to do is just go for a probe function. If hosts
aren't happy with the probe overhead, they can make a checksum or timestamp
or something on each probed file and use it to make sure their database of
plugin metadata is up to date.

Facilities for doing this should be made a part of the GMPI API, host side.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff McClintock" <jeffmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:25 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Instruments done, moving on to "Plugin Files"


> > > Does this mean that at runtime the host must extract a sharable
> > > library from the bundle? This seems rather painful in these days of
> > > extravagant disk space.
>
> Yes, In fact, on Windows you have no option but to extract the plugin dll
to
> a separate file.  Windows won't load a dll from inside an archive (Windows
> references dlls by their filename).
>
> So "Plugin files must be bundled into a single file on the filesystem" is
> not possible on Windows.
>
> > The bundle can be treated very much like a folder/directory.
>
> One alternative would be using a 'real' folder/directory ( 1 per plugin ).
>
> Best Regards,
> Jeff
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 6:09 AM
> Subject: [gmpi] Re: Instruments done, moving on to "Plugin Files"
>
>
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:02:49PM -0600, Mike Berry wrote:
> > > >But, yes, they are going to be "bundles" according to Req 84:
> > > >"Plugin files must be bundled into a single file on the filesystem."
> > >
> > > Does this mean that at runtime the host must extract a sharable
> > > library from the bundle? This seems rather painful in these days of
> > > extravagant disk space.
> >
> > According to the req, yes, the host would have to extract something from
> > the bundle.  This could all be GMPI SDK code, and not compressed, just
> > bundled.  It's quite cheap CPU wise.
> >
> > The question is whether the benefit of having a plugin/plugin pack be a
> > single file is worthwhile or not.
> >
> > In that plugin bundle can be factory default presets, help files,
> > graphics, factory samples, etc.
> >
> > The bundle can be treated very much like a folder/directory.
> >
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