[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Common event coding
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:46:20 -0700
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:18:51PM +0200, Koen Tanghe wrote:
> I realize we could see this as a compromise, but it still seems strange to
> me, and I really hope that we won't get the same old thing again from this:
> in GMPI compliant host X you won't be able to chain GMPI plugin Y after GMPI
> plugin Z in a successful way because Z uses the MIDI bytes only, and Y doess
> it the right way using the GMPI messages, without generating MIDI bytes. I
> really hope this won't be a problem and people won't start saying: "well,
> plugin Z doesn't support MIDI, and that's way our plugin Y can't work the
> way it should"...
This is exactly what will happen, unless we do a proper job of educating
people on the merits of converting their pure-MIDI plugins to be GMPI.
> But if everyone feels good enough about the stapled MIDI bytes being there,
I don't think anyone in NMiG feels GOOD about the stapled MIDI bytes, but
I think we can leave it alone for now, and come spec time, we will revisit
all the details of everything.
This is, after all, requirements. We've already been FAR too techincal on
a lot of reqs, and I think a second pass of the reqs doc will have to weed
out some of the technical decisions we're making prematurely.
So that said, how about feedback on those reqs...? :P
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