2009/11/8 Paul Davis <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Emanuel Rumpf <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/11/8 Jeff McClintock <[email protected]>: > >> 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.
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