[gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross platform
- From: "Laurent de Soras [Ohm Force]" <laurent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:25:37 +0100
Paul Davis wrote:
>
> which should it be?
A mix of the three ! No seriously, I think GMPI specification
should not dictate HOW to access sys and conf info, but make
people sensitive to the related problems.
More specifically, it should specify a context for each
callback : "the following functions are intended to be called
in a real-time thread" or "the following func may use any
system operation but should return as quickly as possible
because blah" or "Here you can block the thread waiting for
user input or other signals" etc. Then to define what are
the real-time issues, and what kind of calls should be
avoided there.
Back on the cross-platform topic, I'm ok with c) if such a
specification exist, otherwise one just can encourage people
to write clean cross-platform code. Actually it's more a
matter of programming hygiene, like code writing rules or
object modelling. You see their benefits mostly on the
long-time run or on big projects. I understand that people
having a limited development/support budget or very specific
target platforms don't want to deal with cross-platform
issues and overhead, and that they want to use only the
APIs they know and trust.
-- Laurent
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Laurent de Soras | Ohm Force
DSP developer & Software designer | Digital Audio Software
mailto:laurent@xxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.ohmforce.com
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