On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:05:16 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >I'm making the point that the host interface shouldn't be forced to provide > >every conceivable OS feature just in order that the implementation code be > >completely platform independent. > > agreed. i think one of our tasks is to identify the set of OS features > that will cover, oh, 98% of all cases, and then to follow the > excellent maxim: "make the easy trivial, the hard easy, and the > impossible feasible." To feed your own answer back, isn't that what the POSIX people did? I know windows has a POSIX layer, and MacOS X and Linux do obviously. I guess pre-X MaxOS would be problematic. Or are you talking about just the things that will be provided by the host? - Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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