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

  • From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:37:51 -0400

>On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:20:26AM -0400, Ron Kuper wrote:
>> I totally agree.  This is a huge win.  The plugins meta-data can point
>> to the vendor's web site, so if User X doesn't have a plugin used by a
>> project created by User Y, they can go to the vendors web site.  Yet
>> another way how standards can grow markets. 
>
>I'm all for rich meta-data. I'm not sure I see how it matters whether the
>meta-data is embedded in the shared object code and accessed via a
>function or whether it is stored as a separate text file or any other
>system.

if you read what steve wrote, he pointed out that licensing issues
that affect the shared object code should preferably not affect the
metadata. ergo - separate files.


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