transKode

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>  It being a binary is really the main problem. Back in the day when I
>  was designing the scripting system, I thought it was a good idea to
>  keep it open to any kind of exectutable. I now regret this decision
>  and I wish we would have forced the use of scripting languages.
>
>  Amarok 2 will very likely no longer support binary "scripts", so
>  please please use a scripting language (a portable one, not Bash) for
>  the next version of transKode. We could probably assist you with
>  porting to QtRuby.

I never really understood why we left transcoding to scripts, myself.

Ian