Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] idle rhythmbox

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin wh9 net>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:52PM -0700, Adam Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-21-05 at 16:30 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > > Any chance of a 0.10.1 release with the current work before it gets
> > > > > the dependency on glib 2.14?
> > > >
> > > > We won't be adding a dependency on glib 2.14.  We'll just use the new
> > > > timeout function if glib 2.14 is available at ./configure time.
> > >
> > > How would that work for python plugins like the Magnatune one (which
> > > uses timeouts to decide when to check for a new version of the catalog)?
> > 
> > What sort of times are we talking about? Surely you don't check for
> > new versions of the catalog on a sub second basis? That call is
> > designed for things that don't need sub second accuracy so the wakeups
> > can happen every second. So if you do it by seconds and at a guess it
> > wouldn't matter if the update ran a bit early or late for something
> > like a catalog update.
> 
> Yeah, the update is every six hours, accuracy isn't that important. I
> was actually asking about the "checking the dependency at compile time"
> part. Sorry if that wasn't clear. As far as I know, you can't do that
> easily with python plugins. I was wondering if that would mean we'd have
> to add code to the plugin to decide whether to use the new call or not,
> and how that would work.

I haven't looked at that yet, but I think we can probably add a wrapper
method in the 'rb' python module that figures out if
gobject.timeout_add_seconds is available, equivalent to the
'rb_timeout_add_seconds' #define that my current patch uses.