Re: [Easytag-mailing] unicode ...

[Ilya Konstantinov <easytag future shiny co il>]

Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:

> Maybe a crazy idea, but what about using external programm to tag the
> files? Taglib is nice, but it's c++'ness might be a big problem.
What problems may C++ code cause? I've used C++ code succesfully within 
EasyTag to support TagLib and I see no reason not to add C++ code when 
needed.

> I've had good
> results using eyeD3, a python script, which could be an interim solution
> for a while, until a decent C-style library appears.
I really don't see a difference between using a C library and a C++ 
library. C++ compilers -- standard-supporting C++ compilers - can be 
found pretty much everywhere today, so we're not even adding a serious 
dependency to EasyTag's compilation by adding some C++ code. I've 
currently resumed writing the TagLib patch and have stumbled across some 
problem which I hope TagLib's author, Scott Wheeler, will help me resolve.

Otherwise, as someone who's coding C++ daily for 3 years now, I can say 
that TagLib is one of the cleanest, most solidly designed and 
best-documented libraries I've seen, so we're surely not making a 
mistake by using it.

eyeD3 looks nice, though! Thanks for the pointer!