[gmpi] Re: Reqs draft
- From: "Vincent Burel" <vincent.burel@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:29:40 +0100
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From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:36 AM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Reqs draft
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:09:08AM +0100, Vincent Burel wrote:
> > > The first GMPI hosts won't have a lot of GMPI plugins. That is why
> > wrapping
> > > VST/DX/AU is so important. We must handle it well.
> >
> > firstly there won't be GMPI host (exclusively GMPI) before many years
> > (except in your kitchen or in the Paul's one). Secondely if we consider
> > that GMPI will also bring a better reliability in the plug-in
production,
> > and a better quality in term of software (bugs minimized because the SDK
> > will be clear, well documented, there won't be 5 differents method to
make
> > this and that and all will be referenced and explained to the plugger
and
> > the host maker....) WELL !!! if we consider the goal of GMPI, why corrup
it
> > right now by thinking about wrapping to/from other plug SDK ? to get the
> > same problems than todays !?
>
> That is an interesting an unusually optimistic (for you) view point. I
like
> the idea, but I think reality intrudes some. I concur, that we SHOULDN'T
> need it, but then again, I don't think we should preclude it.
For me, GMPI cannot be designed in one time, one step. The first Step is a
minimal SDK wich will be a kind of faisability study (I know too that if we
solve too many questions in the same time, we will miss the fundamental
goals), i read people talking about TAR file, compexe DATABASE, XML stuff
etc... this is ridiculous, the first point of the SDK has to be a State of
The Art in term of Simplicity , not only for the programmer, but also for
the processor and the O/S (The succes of GMPI is not based only on the
actual audiosoftware - wich will be obsolete surely when the GMPI format
will come - , but also in the how it could interest hardware maker or
computer based system which does not use modern O/S). So if we go in the way
where we put the good questions at the good time, i think at least that
today the wrapper stuff is out of subject.
VB
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