On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Vincent Burel wrote: > If we make comments on current set of SDK's we will arrive in Januaray 2004 > without having done nothing. And maybe we will have brought more discredit > to the GMPI group because some too much hard criticism about major SDK's . I disagree. Commenting on existing SDKs will allow us a good overview of their REAL shortcomings, rather than their lack of corner-case and cloud-cuckoo-land functionality. The undisputable fact is that even the SDK that is regarded as one of the most flawed and primitive - VST - is able to deliver 85% of what both vendor and customer want 85% of the time; were it not for a small number of glaring design flaws and easily addressable shortcomings, this could be 95 and 95. Other SDKs have some "nice" features missing in VST, but so far the level of adoption of those features by hosts and plugins is virtually zero and there just doesn't seem to be customer demand for it. The undisputed fact is that the preferred native development platform is VST. I think it would be an interesting exercise for a few people to look at VST, fix the things they see as the most glaring errors, and see what we get. Regards, Angus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe