Re: Rhythmbox Predictive Playback - Weekly Report

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Charlotte Curtis schrieb:
> This week I will be working on testing my plugin on my much slower
> laptop, and doing whatever optimization is required.  I will also make
> some UI changes - right now I've got a popup window, which I heard is
> bad news, and I don't have any notification of the running process.
> Finally, I realized that I have a major flaw in how my program works:
> I use Python's subprocess.Popen module to call an executable, but I
> pass as an argument the list of songs that are currently in the
> playlist.  Obviously, the maximum length of this argument is limited.
> I haven't yet hit that limit in my testing, but I'm sure it's there.
> My options for getting around this seem to be:
> a) Rewrite the plugin in C++
> b) Change the executable to one that reads in arguments while its
> running and then use subprocess.communicate to pass it the values
> c) Write the list to a file and read it from the executable
>
> I'd love to be able to do (a), but I'm not quite sure that I have the
> time.  (b) would probably be the second-best solution, because (c)
> would be an annoying amount of reading/writing.  On the other hand, it
> may not be as much of a problem as I imagine, so maybe it's okay
> as-is.
You could also change the executable to read from stdin and provide the 
files that way.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl