[gmpi] Re: Reqs draft
- From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <amulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:57:35 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Tim Hockin wrote:
> Several seconds is really worth all the extra headache? I'm very against a
> central registry.
Yes, several seconds absolutely is - particularly if we want to see GMPI
adopted by consumer apps. Imagine adding 3-4 seconds to the load time of
iTunes or Windows Media Player :-(
> > OK, alternative proposal:-
> > A plugin is a folder. The folder contains a metadata file (plaintext?
> > *ML?) which the host can read. This gives us filesystem based discovery
> > without the overhead of library load and initialization.
> What kind of metadata? Is it really easier to store meta-data outside the
> plugin than to just ask the plugin?
Available plugin objects the module can instantiate, perhaps their
supported I/O configurations, different binary versions contained in the
package (so a single plugin folder-object could contain Linux, Mac OSX
and Windows binaries? or different binaries optimised for different
CPU subtypes?), information about presets contained within the package?
Regards,
Angus.
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