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

I totally agree.  This is a huge win.  The plugins meta-data can point
to the vendor's web site, so if User X doesn't have a plugin used by a
project created by User Y, they can go to the vendors web site.  Yet
another way how standards can grow markets. 

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Great thought, Steve (though I'm interested to hear if anyone 
(commercial devs?) disagrees). I'd like to see this rationale made 
explicit in the req's, perhaps by fleshing out #88. - Jim


At 10:08 AM +0100 8/27/04, Steve Harris wrote:
>Storing the metadata in a seperate part of the plugin means that we
could
>require it to be freely licenced, which would make the metadata of
every
>plugin free for use, even though the plugin itsself isnt eg. to include
in
>session files to make sessions more easily portable between machines.
that
>way the receiver can know exactly what plugins thier missing and make
>substitutions as appropriate.

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