[Openframeworkwg] provider independence

[Bernard Metzler]

>
> I think we all agree on these. However, on (3): If my app wants to
> use inlining provided by the provider then changes to the provider
> code would require recompilation.
>
>
Yes, inlining triggered my concerns regarding (3).
That is going to be optional...right? If one ships an RDMA enabled
data base installation not every network driver update will
necessarily trigger rebuilding everything at customer side...

Thanks,
Bernard.

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Bernard Metzler <BMT at zurich.ibm.com>
wrote:
> ...at another level of granularity and hopefully not
> to much off-topic.
>
> Are we all agree on the following requirements
> for the upcoming interface:
>
> (1) must be provider agnostic (well, some providers may only
>     implement a subset of functionality, but that is managed
>     in a generic way),
> (2) multiple providers can be used from one application
>     in parallel,
> (3) changes to provider code does not enforce recompilation
>     of the application.
>
> Thanks,
> Bernard.
>
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