[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI (goals)

  • From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:27:12 -0700

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:54:48PM -0700, Chris Grigg wrote:
> NEW IDEA: Rather than globally attempting to enforce a wholly 
> unenforceable law outlawing hard-to-undo functionality, which we 
> acknowledge will not happen no matter what the spec says, why 
> couldn't we invent a "ImplementsTotalUndo" metadata flag for the plug 
> packaging?  Then plugs that don't implement total undo will be easily 
> excludable by concerned hosts.  What's the downside?

This just tastest really unpleasant.  We may as well call the flag
"DoesThingsTheOldWay" or "NotFullyGMPI".  No one will use it. :)

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