25 Jan
2007
25 Jan
'07
4:43 a.m.
On 24 Jan 2007, at 18:04, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
2007/1/24, Steve Harris <steve(a)plugin.org.uk>uk>:
Not necessarily. In my opinion, often a 90% solution that reuses
existing technology is better than a 100% one that involves
reinventing the wheel. Even if the new wheel is a bit more round :)
It's all somewhat a matter of taste though.
- Steve
The way to help, IMHO, would be to make the
existing systems
compatible, using bridges/reflectors/wrappers, rather than creating
more specs.
- Steve
Honestly I don't know about PluginCore, however that's not
necessairly true.
Although it is a completely different thing, take as an example
GStreamer. If you compare a processing plugin to a media file and
plugin development APIs to encodings... in the end they're quite
similar!
As I stated before, while in most cases bridges/reflectors/wrappers
can be made quicker and safer, it must be ensured that there's logical
equivalence beetween the two standards (or that the one you're writing
the plugin for is logically a subset of the one you're going to use).