23 Jan
2008
23 Jan
'08
6:11 a.m.
Steve Harris wrote:
To my mind it's better for us to develop a large
suite of tools and
plugins to demonstrate the viability and advantages before we go
I think we indeed need lots of testing tools - like debugging
hosts/plugins spiked with lots of pre/postcondition checks, or even some
validity checking libraries that could be easily inserted (#ifdef'ed)
into "real" hosts/plugins, to check plugin/host behaviour in "real
world".
I recall what incomplete/buggy standard implementations did in Buzz and
VST worlds, and it'd be nice to have some tools to prevent repeating the
same nightmare.
As for "who will write it", I guess it can't be a single-person project,
because just one person is unlikely to come up with *all* the useful
checks (and it would be incredibly boring anyway).
Krzysztof