[gmpi] Re: ABI's / Nutshell
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:26:43 -0800
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:16:56PM -0800, Chris Grigg wrote:
> >In practical terms, this means that you can't assume that a DLL complies
> >with any specific GMPI interface unless you ask it explicitly.
>
> Since we are not using COM per se, what is the motivation for the
> "Unknown" step? Is it that the factory going to be making something
> other than plug instances? Is it for managing plug API version
> changes? Or is this just a ptr typing thing?
A fair question. I think the motivation is to enforce API versioning.
> >Does any of this happen automatically? I don't know, nor do I know if it
> >is cross-platform.
>
> It would be good to get a clearer picture soon, while we can still
> make changes easily if need be.
Once the prototype gets stable (almost there, but for my damned day
job), we can trivially create some external dependency within a plugin and
empirically try it out.
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