I read this mail in the early hours last night, and I kind of thought
it was a little disrespectful toward people like myself who are not
hard core coders..
I use Quartz because I cant code in odjective-c, and the fact that
people spend a LOT of time doing extremely cool stuff in terms of
creating patches then distributing them for FREE is completely
fantastic.. When I find something useful, I email a thank you and add
a link to my website... The fact that there is a healthy community of
people out there who are prepared to help each other out creating
patches - and spend there time and money doing cool stuff just because
its ... well, cool should be encouraged ...
If someone wanted to distribute a virus, the last thing they would do
is add it to a quartz patch - they want maximum coverage get it on
lots of machines... sooooo they would go the usuals route of adding it
something that get stopped by my spam filter... The Quartz community
is pretty small, so unless there is some twisted individual out there
who wants to target the artists / musicians / and generally cool
people using this app - I think its relatively safe...
That said --- when I download from I site I always take a look at the
postings to make sure that there is a strong user base / read any
comments on a patch to check for bugs ect. And if I get any problems
with the patch I take it out and put it in the trash...
.... anyway had my say lets move on. regards mark
Dear Al,
BEWARE of PLUGINS!
I innocently loaded a few without realizing that they expose your
entire system to potential damage,
or viruses. Architecturally, QC itself is kind of like a plug-in
and a more reasonable approach would be to
write your own wrapper code. There is nothing that can be
accomplished by a pluig-in that can't be better
accomplished by making the 'round-trip' to some objective-c code.
Plugins are an absurd and ridiculous technique for any discussion of
performance and that should
be clear to anyone who has a bit of system experience.
They do represent a way of packaging some code for sale, and I
suggest that you wait until the AppStore
hosts these as a way of ensuring a 'trustworthy' source.
I might also point out that they are written in objective c and
pehaps should be discussed on another
more appropriate list.
Since QC has introduced no new graphics format, performance
questions might be also directed to the
respective lists (quickTime,Cocoa-dev). So far, plug-ins has given
license for someone to talk about
completely unrelated issues, under the rubrik of QC.
sincerely,
aram
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