>>> Note that app.event.{starting,stopping} are not intended to indicate
>>> whether a client has joined/left SAMP, but whether it has started or
>>> stopped "processing" in some application-specific sense - Al argued
>>> in the session that these names should be changed to avoid
>>> confusion.
>>
>> Those names confuse me as well. What about
>> app.event.{startingProcess,stoppingProcess} ?
>
> That could be an improvement.
Actually for me that's worse. "Process" implies that application process itself, not that the application is starting and stopping some (data?) processing it is doing
> As far as I understand the intention of these MTypes they are
> likely to be restricted to the sort of client which does batch-like
> processing of data. If that's the case, they are somewhat
> application-specific, so should maybe not be admin-type messages,
> and hence should be defined and described outside of the main SAMP
> document itself?
I'd vote for that. I don't believe it's something that generally needs to be broadcast to all applications.
Al. Received on 2008-06-03Z14:57:56