[gmpi] Re: My plugin system

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:49:28AM +0200, Marco Ballini wrote:
> > As I see it, GMPI is not rigth until most everythign else can be a plugin:
> > sequencers, automation engines, tempo control, MIDI in/out.  I'd even like
> > to see drivers be plugins, but I'm willing to bend on that  :)

> I agree with this vision, though I wouldn't use the word "host". In the
> case where a graph of plugins is wrapped and executed by another plugin,
> a "network plugin", to run this you would need an "host" app.
> Processing the graph could be done by the network plugin, while managing
> buffers of memory could be done by the host.


Ah, but thxp eplugins inside the sub-graph plugin ask their parent for
buffers, so it IS a host, it just passes the requests on to it's own parent,
which may be another plugin.  Somewhere up the chain, the real management
happens.  That doesn't make it any less of a host.

-- 
Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use,
suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books.  Cause and effect,
or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts?


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