[gmpi] Re: Reqs draft

  • From: "Vincent Burel" <vincent.burel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:08:02 +0100

----- Original Message -----
From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <amulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Reqs draft


> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Vincent Burel wrote:
>
> > > Any format is much more likely to succeed if a plug developer knows it
> > > will be easy to port or wrap code from that format to all the others.
>
> > where did you see that , there is no example ! :-)
>
> Almost every developer wants to target as many platforms as possible. If
> by developing natively for Format X, they can get Y and Z "for free", they
> will be most inclined to develop for it.

Well , this is not tha same kind of wrapping. All professionnals (i guess)
does not plug directely in the targeted SDK, they made a generic private one
, and they link with a customized version of the target SDK . This is a
source code wrapping, not a wrapping plug-in. The result is truly a plug-in
in the good format.

VB





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