----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gardner" <billg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 7:16 PM Subject: [gmpi] Re: Topic 1: Audience for and users of plugins > The current goal is to choose the audience first, then debate features. > It's hard to do this without making the obvious extrapolations from > audience to target architecture to feature requirements. For example, > external box developers -> fixed point DSP -> support for integer data > types. I agree that a dynamically negotiated approach will tend to be far > more inclusive of various target audiences, yet it may end up getting > complicated too, like DirectX, and this in itself may lose an audience that > prefers something really simple. people who needs a simple approach don't need GMPI and didn't wait us ! :-) - Create - Destroy - Reset - SetAudioFormat - Process - OpenDialogBox End of discussion ! :-) Now if when i talk about negociation , you think Direct -X , there is a problem . I'm not big supporter of Direct-X even if i know very well this crap made by a sick guy (sorry for the sick guy) but negociating can be resumed to one function just to ask for an audio format, for getting the processing function address , for getting a link to a GUI for getting any information we will or would need... Well, if you absolutely want to talk about the target and audience , it's ok. But people who want a fixed point or 64 bits float calculation is not a target for me , it's a detail of implementation. Regards Vincent Burel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe