transKode

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 2/27/08, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> 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.

I think because we were too busy to write it ourselves, and thought we
could let someone else write it. And yeah, it's not ideal.

That's really a separate issue though. My point was just: no more
binary scripts.

-- 
Mark