Re: Cd Burning

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:28, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 10:08, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 14:31, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, for one, CD burning would be better off in a separate process than
> > > the main app, just for the sake of retaining interactivity without the
> > > chance of buffer-underrun.  And, while threads can manage that, a bonobo
> > > interface would be more capable of queuing burning requests, no? 
> > > Something like if I tell Rythmbox to burn a Rock CD and an Anime
> > > Soundtrack CD, it would make both requests, those would get queued by an
> > > interface activated thru bonobo, which would burn, handle notification,
> > > etc. etc.
> > 
> > Riight. You can write a bonobo component with a library, you can't
> > (decently) write a library from a bonobo component. After you've written
> > the library, how much glue you fancy is up to you.
> 
> This depends.  Writing a library designed for a simple burning interface
> in an application isn't going to get one very far given the above goals,
> at all.  If you just want a library, use libcdrecord.  Designing the
> code form the ground up to serve/queue multiple requests, in an
> out-of-process fashion from the application, saves time, versus writing
> it once as a library than again as a service, especially given how 90%
> of the code is going to be the glue itself - why write a library to
> handle CD burning, then a service to interface to this library, which
> increases code size and dependencies, versus just writing the service
> and be done with it?
> 
> > 
> > > Granted, I'm not in any way familiar with the intricacies of this stuff,
> > > so maybe I'm just babbling out my arse again... ~,^
> > 
> > OK. Wish death upon us next time, that will be safer. Bonobo is a nice
> > technology, but if you're not the one writing the code, it's not up to
> > you in any way.
> 
> Woah.  Sorry, I forgot that the GNOME lists are closed to suggestions,
> comments, ideas, and discussion, and that only experience core GNOME
> hackers are allowed to be subscribed.  I know this message has been a
> considerable inconvenience to you, and I'm sorry for wasting your
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> this e-mail has consumed.

Geez, chill, or I'll have to get my Debian acronyms out. Choosing
between bonobo and a library is something is like choosing between 2
dishes. You don't take decisions for the one that's going to eat it.

And save the attitude for your friends, I'm not going to make you a
martyr.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net