[gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross Platform

  • From: David Olofson <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:07:46 +0100

On Thursday 06 March 2003 23.46, Mike Berry wrote:
> Lets please not use byte streams to communicate with plugins. The
> whole point of have a header with struct definitions is to avoid
> endless, complicated, byte parsing. Since we can assume that the
> host and plugin have access to the same header and can agree on the
> physicial description of the struct, lets use it.

I totally agree. We're designing an API - not a wire protocol.


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