[gmpi] Re: Requirements
- From: "Michael Gogins" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:29:19 -0500
Yes, I remember that now, but somehow in my mind it got turned around so
that we were defining a C++ API that would in fact be implemented with C, as
with VST plugins (only more elegantly).
I'm fine with C; presumably it will be a sort of object-oriented C with
classes and all.
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Michael Gogins
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Irreducible Productions
CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Davis" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:09 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Requirements
> >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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