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I'd love to have someone taking care of autohell for me :D I'm a spare-time programmer and have not yet had the courage and the time to delve into the automake stuff bypassing it with the functions MonoDevelop provides :) Count me in! cheers, Mathijsken > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:03:47 +0800 > From: hyperair gmail com > To: banshee-list gnome org > Subject: [Banshee-List] Combining Unofficial Banshee Extensions [was: List of third party extensions on the website] > > On Saturday 30,January,2010 11:44 PM, Bertrand Lorentz wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 16:00 -0800, Kristopher Dick wrote: > >> * https://launchpad.net/banshee-remote-plugin/1.0/1.0 Allows > >> remote control of Banshee via the BansheeRemote app on Android > >> phones. > >> * https://launchpad.net/banshee-listening-post/smtp/1.0 > >> Provides the basic functionality of sending e-mail messages > >> to a preconfigured recipient when the track changes. > > > > Cool, I didn't know about those two, thanks ! > > I added them to the page, and I also added the "Radio Station Fetcher" > > and "Stream Ripper" extensions that I missed before. > > Cool, we have more extensions now! > > Since we've got a significant number of extension packages that need to be > transitioned every other Banshee release, I'd actually like to propose everyone > getting together and merging all the off-tree extensions into a single > code-base, and synchronizing releases with Banshee's release, in something like > an extension pack of sorts. In fact, I think the banshee-unofficial-plugins > project on Google Code was started with something like that in mind. > > This would make package maintainers' jobs (like mine, among others) much easier > -- no need to maintain separate packaging trees for each extension. To give an > idea on the volume -- if we have 10 different packaged extensions, and say, 3 > versions of a distro that we want to backport the version to, that's 30 > different packaging trees we have to maintain. And all of these have to be > transitioned every time a new Banshee release which breaks API/ABI appears. *cringe* > > There will also be benefits to the maintainers of each extension, of course. The > most clear of these would be that each extension maintainer will not have to > maintain his/her own entire Autohell (or other, probably inferior) build system. > Last I checked, Banshee.CoverFlow has no build system, for instance. With a > combined project around, it should be trivial to integrate a new extension into > the tree, similar to how it can be integrated into the current Banshee tree. > > What do the extension maintainers think? I'd like very much to hear from all of you. > > > P.S. As examples of other plugin projects out in the wild, something like the > geany-plugins (http://plugins.geany.org) project resulted out of combining > various plugins for the Geany text editor. It's quite young, but I think it's a > great success :-) > > -- > Kind regards, > Chow Loong Jin > Hotmail: gratis, betrouwbare e-mail met veel functies. Meld je nu aan. |