[linux-audio-dev] some more GMPI thoughts

[Steve Harris]

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