[gmpi] Re: Instruments done, moving on to "Plugin Files"

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:00:44 +0100

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:19:32 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:44:04 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> despite this, i think this should probably be left to hosts or wrapper
> >> libraries, because of the issues with file ownership and cache
> >> updating. the only acceptable metadata for me would be some way in
> >> which text information was buried in a section of the object file, and
> >> accessible. but if the plugin file format is a standard obejct format
> >> (ELF, COFF, a.out, etc. etc), it would be really hard to do this in a
> >> platform independent way.
> >
> >Why would you want the metadata stuck in the object file? As the 'plugins'
> >are going to be bundles anyway, why not just put it in a text file in the
> >bundle.
> 
> well, if they *are* going to be bundles, that would be equivalent. it
> wasn't clear to me that they definitely would be. and "bundle" means
> different things to different people. to me, a bundle is something
> that ends up on disk represented by several different inodes. i
> suspect some of our win/macos brethren might have an alternate take on
> what "bundle" means.

I was trying to think of a generic name for a tarball/zipfile/whatever,
and had just been reading the OSC specs ;)

But, yes, they are going to be "bundles" according to Req 84:
"Plugin files must be bundled into a single file on the filesystem."

- Steve

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