[gmpi] Re: The Master Plan

I truly do dislike having to ask these things I occasionally pop in to ask, so please nobody assume I'm trying to be a killjoy with this, but: Since everything that's been coded up so far is necessarily subject to revision in order to better support whatever further coding comes next, what precisely is the purpose of 'releasing' it at this stage? Put another way, to whom would it be 'released'? Would developers be well advised, or ill advised, to incorporate this release into products and call it GMPI?

Also there are the whole licensing and (c) ownership issues to get worked out, are there not, before any public release?

        -- Chris G.

I've been dodging this email until my tree of the SDK was caught up.  I'm
caught up.  We need to decide what we're going to do with it, in terms of
releasing it.  Most of the ideas have been posted here, but the complete
code has not.

Right now I have a C and C++ split, each with host and plugin directories.
Each of those 4 trees provides some base code which should not need
modification by many developers (but could be if needed) and example code
which shows how to use the base code and implement a host/plugin.  It's
all been tested on Linux, but needs to be re-reworked for Windows and Mac
(and others), I am sure.

So, until we agree how to release this, that's all you get :)  Seriously,
I'm dying to share this stuff.


On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:26:34PM +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote:
MIDI, Audio, Parameters, Events, GUI etc being your building blocks.. 

I think the next steps are:

 - Documenting what we have done (Who "owns" the spec?  I owned the reqs
   doc, I'd rather not do it again, but I can if I have to).
 - Expanding the host interface (I added IGMPI_Host which is passed to
   plugins at creation time).
 - Specifying the metadata interfaces (internal and external)
 - Arguments to plugins
 - Defining a plugin "bundle"
 - Writing a cross-platform GMPI_PLUGIN_PATH walker

So really, let's get this code released.  Once we release this snapshot,
we can freeze it until it is good on all platforms, then start moving
forward again.  I'm sure there will be plenty of critique on what I've
done wrong in C++ and what I've done (somewhat unilaterally) in C.

Having fun.
Tim


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