[gmpi] Re: Requirements
- From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:09:25 -0500
>However, I think I must have missed where it was decided to use ANSI C
>instead of standard C++, which would make getting it all to work much
>easier.
this was decided rather early on. the major motivation: it is much,
much, much easier to wrap an API written in C for other languages than
one written in C++. even in the simple 2 language case: write the API
in C++, and C hosts can't use it (assuming use of any C++ features not
present in C, which if not done makes C++ a bit pointless really,
doesn't it?)
then move on to the the likely desire in the future to wrap it for
some other non-C-derived languages, and C becomes almost mandatory.
notice how the VST API is really written in C, but was wrapped in C++
to make developer's lives a bit easier. GMPI (or GMPI++) could do the
same.
--p
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