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

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:40:37 +0000

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:06 -0700, Mike Berry wrote:
>       And what happens when a noobie decides that http://delay is a good 
>       url to identify their plugin? Is there a GMPI registration service? 
> GUIDs 
> can avoid this problem. And we can put safeguards in the API to catch 
> where people have not changed the GUID in a sample project.

What prevents a newbie from making up a bad GUID by the same token? Or
using a broken GUID generator?

All you need is a one paragraph explanation telling people to use URIs
relative to a webpage they own.

- Steve 

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