Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee.Web abstraction

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Alex Hixon <hixon alexander mediati org> wrote:
>  Just trying to get a rough idea on what was planned, and what features are
>  going to end up in Banshee.Web.
>  I understand we obviously want to aim for a platform-abstracted version of
>  this. Does the current solution actually work on Windows (all we really
>  care about/have as an alien test platform atm), that is, the
>  System.Diagnostics.Process.Start method?

I'm not certain - I culled it from MonoDevelop.

>  Also, if we want to have a proper interface/abstracted class and members
>  implement the interface, how would we want to approach it? Would we have a
>  Singleton that attempts to set the instance depending on the operating
>  system? Banshee.Web.Browser.UserAgent would probably end up living
>  somewhere else, I assume. Also, are the only two things we really need the
>  UserAgent and the Open function? Do we want to provide any more
>  functionality/shortcuts to classes?

If we need to create an abstraction, we'd likely do it just like
src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.IO/

Cheers,

Gabriel