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

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Or just dont special case it. I dont think its a general enough feature
> that hosts should be required to support it.

Sorry, not following you.  Are you saying don't make a flag to indicate
that a filename parameter indicates a project-local file, or require that
all hosts support such a flag?

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