[Rhythmbox-devel] Work on libdmapsharing

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike flyn org>]

I have done some work adding server support to libdmapsharing. As I  
said in a previous email (Subj.: Questions regarding DAAP library  
split), I am interested in a DMAP client / server library for C.

libdmapsharing-new-libsoup [1] Adds support for libsoup-2.24.

libdmapsharing-server [2] This one is still quite rough. It adds  
server code (mostly from Rhythmbox trunk) to the library. The test  
program at tests/test_dmap_server.c demonstrates how to use the  
server code. I would like to define an interface that applications  
could implement. However, it seems that, e.g., Rhythmbox would not  
want its database code to implement an interface that is defined by  
the dependency of an optional plugin. Because I am not sure where to  
define the interface, I have used a more primitive technique for the  
time being (i.e., a struct containing function pointers that need to  
be implemented / set in the application code). Does anyone have a  
good solution to this?

Would the Rhythmbox developers be interested in pulling Rhythmbox's  
DAAP code out and replacing it with this library (once it is  
complete)? This library was originally based on Rhythmbox.

Thanks.

Mike

[1] http://www.flyn.org/patches/libdmapsharing-server/libdmapsharing- 
new-libsoup-1.patch.gz
[2] http://www.flyn.org/patches/libdmapsharing-server/libdmapsharing- 
server-0.patch.gz