Administrative MTypes

[Alasdair Allan]

>>> 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.