transKode

[Miguel Angel Alvarez]

El Miércoles 27 Febrero 2008, Mark Kretschmann escribió:
> On 2/27/08, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Sergio Pistone
> >
> >  <sergio_pistone at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> >  > Hi, my name is Sergio Pistone, and I'm the author of transKode, one of
> >  > the scripts that can be used to transcode file to audio devices (at
> >  > least in the 1.4.x branch, I don't know if things will work the same
> >  > way for the 2.x release).
> >
> >  Really it shouldn't be your job to package it. I agree with you that
> >  you shouldn't make binaries of it. Thats the distros job. We could
> >  help you get in contact with them.
>
> It being a binary is really the main problem. Back in the day when I
No, it isn't. It simply should be a static binary, and that's all.
> 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
It is a good idea.
> and I wish we would have forced the use of scripting languages.
No, you shouldn't
> Amarok 2 will very likely no longer support binary "scripts", so
Please don't do that. You shouldn't put any restriction just because.
> 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.



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