[gmpi] Re: Topic 1: Audience for and users of plugins
- From: "Michael Gogins" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:49:59 -0500
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From: "Steve Harris" <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Topic 1: Audience for and users of plugins
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:03:53 -0500, gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I suggest that we specifically add "academic computer music researchers,
> > developers, and composers" to the audience list, because this in fact is
> > where much of the basic stuff has come from (one notable exception:
MIDI;
> > I'm sure there are others!).
>
> I am in that category, as well as a developer of conventional plugins.
>
> I think its very important not to try to predict or anticipate the
> development direction of computer music research. IMHO the best thing to
> do is to design a plugin standard that is useful now, and accept that it
> will have a limited shelf life, rather for aiming for something that will
> be optimal a few years later.
>
> CORBA (for example) did that, and ended up being sidelined, because by the
> time CORBA became a low enough overhead to be generally useful everyone
> was using XML.
>
> Its perfectly possible that in a few years time computer music researchers
> will be using PWM instead of PCM, but theres no point adding that to the
> API, because equally we might not ;)
>
> - Steve
>
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