[gmpi] Re: Requirements
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:22:38 -0800
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Vincent Burel wrote:
> > Where is the warranty that the user won't format c: or edit the registry?
>
> :-) funny, the difference here is that the user has no opportunity to format
> c: or go in the registry. In the GMPI installation process , the user has
> the opportunity to make a mystake because he is obliged to make the copy
No one is obliged to copy the file, unless you don't provide an installer.
If you don't trust others to not install over your dll, there is nothing
that anyone can do to prevent it in ANY system.
> > Do you ship VST plugins? You have this problem already.
>
> around hundred DLL in 7 years :-) yes at the beginning when i was calling my
I know. I know your stuff. VST already has this problem. The simplest
plugins out there are distributed as a zip of a .dll and a readme.txt. You
copy them into your VSTPlugins folder. This problem exists today and is NOT
a significant source of pain.
> DLL.... because a day i'm sure that will get trouble with that again, and
> why not a funny competitor which will take exactely the same name as your
> DLL to replace your entire set of plug-in and explain to the client that
So make subdirectories? That's not too hard to figure out. All we're
saying is that the installation should be no more complicated than VST.
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