On Monday, February 07, 2005 5:19 PM [GMT+1=CET], B.J. Buchalter <xxxbj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is true, BUT, for example in the AU world, the guidelines are not > just words on the page -- they are implemented as a maintained validation > tool that is freely available to developers and users. I don't know if bypassing the host for dsp <--> GUI communication could be intercepted by a validation tool, but I too am very glad that the "validation tools" got into the spec alright: Req 114: The GMPI SDK must provide a tool or suite of tools to perform basic plugin validation. BTW, should we also add something for host validation? Or did we assume this would be much less of a problem and hance dropped that (can't remember, but I find it strange now that it's missing)? Koen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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