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

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:20:26AM -0400, Ron Kuper wrote:
> 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. 

I'm all for rich meta-data. I'm not sure I see how it matters whether the
meta-data is embedded in the shared object code and accessed via a
function or whether it is stored as a separate text file or any other
system.

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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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