Re: Making prerequisites easy

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Isn't there already a sort of `event service' in
libgnome/gnome-triggers.h?  Maybe it would be worth expanding it a bit, so
that it integrates with the gnome-sound code, and maybe add a corba
backend for notifying other processes of the events.

BTW, which applications actually use this code?

James Henstridge.

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On 15 Oct 1998, Tom Tromey wrote:

> >> In the case you cited (audio), and perhaps more generally, I would
> >> prefer modular functionality over prerequisites.
> 
> In this case I'd prefer to have the applications only loosely coupled
> to audio.  I've mentioned this before... applications could generate
> events when something interesting happens.  A different (entirely
> optional and separate) application could listen to events and turn
> them into audio according to arbitrarily-hairy user criteria.
> 
> Elliot> The problem with modularity is that in some cases it is on the
> Elliot> other side of the fence from tight integration ;-)
> 
> I think clashes between modularity and integration usually result from
> poor factoring.
> 
> A positive side effect of using CORBA is that it (hopefully) forces
> the designer to think more clearly about the factoring that is taking
> place.  I think this is because the IDL somehow seems less malleable
> than ordinary code.  At least, that's the case for me.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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