gsoc 2010 : Discussion of Project proposal "Integration of playdar with amarok"

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Sanyam goyal <goyalsanyam at gmail.com> wrote:
> my name is Sanyam, I am final year Student of Computer Science department ,
> IIT Bombay, india. I am interested in applying for google summer of code
> 2010. I contacted the potential mentor also and He suggested to discuss the
> proposal on the mailing list.
>
> PROJECT:-" Integration of playdar with amarok"
>
>   I was doing some search/reading on playdar before putting my proposal.I
> found out that
>
> " Playdar runs a lightweight webserver on your machine - this is how you
> talk to it, and it's how other desktop apps and web apps talk to it."
>
> " Playdar has an HTTP API that returns JSON. It supports JSONP, "  There is
> nice documentation available for this API.
>
> Since amarok is written is C/C++/Qt , So I was thinking of using Boost
> library (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html) or
> ACE framework (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html)to implement the
> project.

Both Boost.asio and ACE appear to be pretty low level and do things
mostly already available in Qt.

Ian