[gmpi] Re: The Master Plan

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:03:59AM -0800, Chris Grigg wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I meant to publish it.  So far it's on my hard drive.  I'd like
to put it in a place where people (this list, mostly) can look at it and
comment and make changes.  A public CVS with bug tracker and doc manager,
preferably.

Remember, at my core I am an open-source guy, so my inclination is to be
as public as possible about all stages of development.

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

Sorry, I don't mean "Issue a press release, 1.0 is done", just putting
it somewhere that you all can get at it.

As for ownership, it is currently owned by Jeff and I :).  We're trying
to work within the group here, but (as you can see) we're chomping at
the bit to get work done.  Ron asked, a while back, that we not post
this code anywhere, so we haven't.  But I want to.

This code is a prototype of the API, and it solves and raises issues
that the group needs to address.  If I can't share it...

I hope that clarifies.


> >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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