[gmpi] Re: Requirements

  • From: Frederic Vanmol <frederic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:51:42 +0100

> if you define the plugin API and the plugins all use it to draw with,
> then its easy. the problem is when the plugins want to circumvent
> whatever facilities the plugin API provides with "native" calls. if we
> take a lession from the photoshop api (the mozilla plugin api would be
> another example, and has been cited here before because it includes
> more generic run-time stuff), then it would appear that we need a
> more, rather than less, expansive API to allow plugins to be
> cross-platform.
>

If you want to make it as easy as possible for plugins to be cross-platform, 
then yes. But this should be in another API, not the core GMPI API.

Frederic

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