On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Emanuel Rumpf
<xbran(a)web.de> wrote:
  2009/11/8 Jeff McClintock
<jef(a)synthedit.com>om>: 
  FLOSS poeple - let's rather ignore GMPI as
long as we can. 
 I don't recall you being involved in the GMPI process. I was, and so
 was Jeff (and others include Steve Harris).
 The final outcome of the organized attempt to define and implement
 GMPI was not terribly satisfactory, but that was partly because the
 people who put the most time into the process (including Jeff) were
 unhappy about MMA's attempt to control the rest of the process.
 Imagining that GMPI was some kind of corporate shill attempt at a
 plugin standard is completely wrong. It was designed by FLOSS-friendly
 developers, with the intent on their part that it would remain that
 way. The fact that the MMA wasn't willing to play ball with that idea
 was what helped kill it - we had actually reached a final
 specification. the MMA does not own that spec.
 Jeff has continued to refine it via experience .. that doesn't
 necessarily mean that its a viable plugin API at this point, but you
 could at least be a bit more informed about its history before
 denouncing as non-FLOSS-ish ...
 
That's right. I've not been informed of this history.
Thank you for the information.
--
E.R.