[gmpi] Re: low level API - Abstract Factory summary

  • From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:30:50 -0500

>I'd like to see us cherry pick the best ideas from COM, but still keep
>the interface as streamlined as possible.  For starters this could mean
>getting rid of reference counting and limiting the set of interfaces to
>avoid many small ephemeral objects floating around.

i'm loving it.

>Every GMPI module (DLL, whatever) then needs to expose one global entry
>point, a "get factory" function.
>
>Thoughts?

totally agreed. but isn't this true of all plugin API's anyway?

--p

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