On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:31:16 +0100, Simon Jenkins wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:03 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:19:50 +1000, Dave Robillard wrote: > > >> (I still think the central repository is a good idea anyway, FWIW) > > > > > > So do I, but its a hell of a lot of effort, and its unlikly to be kept > > > up to date. > > > > In the commercial world (of one application I develop for anyway) a number > > of unique plugin ids are allocated per developer licence of a piece of > > host software. There are also some that are published but never allocated, > > and kept free for other development purposes. > > > > In practise, everyone randomly uses id's that don't cause problems - or > > uses the ones from some company they worked for a few years ago (this is > > mostly for internal use) > > > > It's chaos in other words, so it's probably not the model to follow :) > > > > A heirarchical ID system - a bit like OIDs in SNMP - might be worth > considering. The IDs form a tree rather than a flat space, and once you > own an ID node in the tree (like in SNMP when you are allocated an > "enterprise" OID) then you own every node beneath that node in the tree.
Or, we could use a system thats been demonstrated to work really well... http://www.w3.org/Addressing/ - Steve
