Can I suggest we suspend this ... discussion <g> ... until we get to the point to writing a spec. The requirements for installation are what they are. The details are to be determined later. Right now our goal is a requirements document. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Hockin [mailto:thockin@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:53 PM To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gmpi] Re: Requirements On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:38:45PM +0100, Vincent Burel wrote: > Firstly i don't understand how you can be sure that "it's not a > significant source of pain" !?!? secondly i don't understand why you > want to base the Because NO ONE I have EVER spoken with has mentioned it as a problem. Purely empirical. > If the goal is to make a crap of potential bugs and problem with GMPi > , let me know right now ! :-) I can tell you that the goal is NOT to do everything the "Windows Way". If you have a problem changing your paradigm.... > you are not understanding really the problem i'm affraid. i hope other > will I guess not. > understand and explain you. For me it's not possible (reliable and > secure) to authorize the regular user to install plug-in in folder > manually.... and it's not possible (a good method) also to list > available plug-in by scanning directories. All is wrong here. It's odd that it's not possible for you, but for everyone else it's just fine. I definitely think the problem is with the system, and not the outlier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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