[gmpi] Re: lost-n-found #3 parameter stuff

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:04:08AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > I think it's a minor thing that could be tremendously useful.  BUt I could
> > also be talked out of it.
> 
> Could be dangerous. Imagine a plugin processes a multi gigabtye file to do
> some processing on it and extract some core data, it just wants to store
> the data it processed out, not the huge source bundle. Users would be
> supprised (read anoyed ;) to discover that thier DAW session files were 2
> GB bigger when they used that plugin...

I think, if this is to be useful, it's a flag.  If the plugin does not
want to save the entire file, then don't flag it as a project-specific
file parameter.

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