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

  • From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:19:32 -0400

>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.


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