>> Well, if it really takes 2 years to finalize this API, then at that point >> Windows 98 and ME will be damn old. Not supporting them sounds fine to >> me, but admittedly I am also not a user of any Windows versions so I might >> be failing to see the viewpoint of actual Windows users... > >Well IIRC, ME was released after Windows 2000. But that's irrelevant. personally, i don't see where support for an OS really fits into GMPI at all. the API should allow hosts to present a "callback suite" (to paraphrase mike berry) that encapsulate any functionality that might have to originate in the OS. plugins don't need to know anything about the OS they are on. hosts do, but not in order to support a GMPI plugin. we just need to provide platform-independent wrapping of DLL-load-and-instantiate functions. compiler support seems like more of an issue than OS support. this "cdecl" and "stdcall" thing, for example - its not an issue AFAIK with gcc under wintel. how to write inline assembler, what to name exported functions and how to export them - this sort of thing seems much more central and also a bit more difficult. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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