[gmpi] Re: Topic 1: Audience for and users of plugins

On Friday 21 February 2003 17.55, Bill Gardner wrote:
> >i don't believe that this example counters my claim that GMPI
> > doesn't have to consider networking. plugins as we have defined
> > them (we have defined them, right? :)) are not standalone pieces
> > of code. they do not execute outside a host context. ergo,
> > networking is not to/from plugins, but to/from hosts. hosts
> > communicating with hosts is not part of what GMPI covers.
>
> That's the crux of the issue. Can a plug communicate with the host,
> or its own GUI, via a network?

I don't think a plugin should ever have to do anything like that. If 
the "real" host is somewhere else, a plugin would be running under a 
local host, rather than deal with the networking directly.

However, what I'm trying to say here is that if we completely *ignore* 
the possibility that plugins running in different hosts might be 
connected to each other (network stuff handled by the hosts), we're 
asking for trouble.


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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