Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] some more GMPI thoughts
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 21:50:38 EEST
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:20:04 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > 2) Explicit versioning for API?
>
> Versioning of...?
The API I expect, this is necceasry to allow multli API plugins (LADSPA
want versioned and is now).
A #define is enough.
> > 4) uniq IDs for plugins?
> > who is authority?
>
> Not sure that UUIDs are a great idea. URIs could work, or... What is your
> requirement here? What do you need it to do? Don't design a solution, just
> define the problem.
Agreed. Centerally administered UIDs are probably a bad idea.
> We're not designing solutions, just requirements, right now. It's fine to
> have a solution to a requirement, but remember that this is a bigger group.
> I don't even know what YAML is. XML is a somewhat obvious answer for
> portable data, but that may be beyond the scope of GMPI.
It probably should be in the spec, or at least a recommended schema. There
better be a good reason for it being anything other than XML.
- Steve
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