Re: Tag access with libtaginfo

[JM <interflug1 gmx net>]

Sorry to hear that libtaginfo is so not suited for easytag.

Certainly, it would be possible to do a GObject wrapper for the C++
API. 

And it is true that libtaginfo's C bindings are not using GObject or
GFile and do mapping to standard C types. Why should it do more? I think
that would be a little too much overhead for a simple, generally usable
wrapper for synchronous file access. 

Have fun re-writing the code



 

On Fr, 2013-12-13 at 11:24 +0000, David King wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 2013-12-13 11:57, JM <interflug1 gmx net> wrote:
> > This library is called "libtaginfo" [1] and it provides full C bindings API for extended tag access.
> > Access to any media file type is handled in a similar way.
> >
> > It is simple, fast, extendible, fully documented, covered with unit
> > tests and used by at least 2 media players atm (xnoise (vala) and pragha
> > (C+GObject)).
> > The API is kept simple: File types are automatically determined by
> > extension, by mimetype or manually. See coding example below.
> > Optionally, string management can be enabled.
> >
> > -> My question is: Could this could be interesting for usage in easytag?
>
> The API looks OK, although it only seems to accept filenames, and as
> EasyTAG is in the process of being ported to use GFile throughout, some 
> alternative I/O callbacks would be needed, like those in vorbisfile:
>
> http://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/vorbisfile/callbacks.html
>
> Also, I will still be targeting Debian stable as the oldest supported 
> distribution, so getting into (at least) backports would be a 
> requirement.
>
> Finally, as EasyTAG is making heavier use of GObject and GIO, I would 
> rather port to a GObject API than a C wrapper for a C++ API (which I 
> would then wrap with some GObject anyway), so libtaginfo does not seem 
> like a great fit for EasyTAG.
>
> Thanks, and good luck with the project
>
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