[gmpi] Re: Reqs draft
- From: Frederic Vanmol <frederic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:00:19 +0100
How about a compromise? Make a library with GMPI utilities. One of those
utilities would then be a plugin manager. A host can choose if it uses this
or not.
Frederic
--- On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:42, you wrote: ---
> As a host writer, I wanted to chime in on the idea of a GMPI defined
>
> plugin manager which determined which plugins my host would load.
> <<<
>
> I'll chime in here too.
>
> We actually have a "plugin manager" that allows us to bypass badly behaving
> plugins. We need to do this because in DirectX something can "smell like"
> an audio plugin, but when you try to connect to it, it says, "sorry, wrong
> media type." AFAIK Sonic Foundry has similar technology (plug-in exclusion
> list) in their apps.
>
> So on the one hand, 2 vendors that I know of, have already implemented
> something like this. By induction...
>
> But on the other hand, GMPI is designed for music apps. If you are
> enumerating GMPI plugs, then they better connect. If they crash in host X,
> will they also crash in host Y? Realistically, even if we get GMPI
> "right", hosts will all be different in some way.
>
> How about a compromise solution, something that enables plugin management
> without actually requiring it? I realize this is jumping deeper into spec
> issues, but here goes: give every plugin a bit of meta data that says "I
> failed to load <when> in app <who>." Any app can query this before loading
> to be on guard (or not). An app which catches a load failure can populate
> this (or not).
>
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