Again, I recommend investigation of the Apache cross-platform library. ============================================ Michael Gogins gogins at pipeline period com Irreducible Productions CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/ ============================================ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Davis" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:50 PM Subject: [gmpi] Re: (Req 5) Re: Reqs Discuss: 1-11 > >> Maybe the requirement needs to be reworded some, but I think the idea is > >> still right. > > > >Mayby more clarification on what services we are talking about. I guess > >there is some fear of creating a monster. > > something along the lines of: > > * the GMPI design group will research options for a library > to be provided with or recommended as part of the GMPI SDK. > > The library will provide cross-platform access to the > following services: > > * memory management > * file management > * thread management > > In the absence of other considerations, an existing library > will be preferred over a new implementation. Libraries that > implement APIs defined by established standards bodies will > be preferred to those implementing APIs defined by specific > vendors or other groups. > > If a library is developed or identified for this purpose, then > use of the library will be considered to be optional on > the part of plugin developers, but should be recommended as a > "best practice" to encourage portability across present and > future platforms on which GMPI runs. > > How does that sound? > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list > Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the > following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own > words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not > redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. > > Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi > Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe