transKode

[Miguel Angel Alvarez]

El Sábado 01 Marzo 2008, Colin Guthrie escribió:
> Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote:
> > 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.
>
> For what arch? i586, i686, x86_64, MMX extensions, CMOV support, 
For those just one binary fits all
> PPC, 
> Sparc, ARM, Windows EXE, OSX binary etc?
For those one binary for arch, evidently
>
> Binaries are evil when thinking about this kind of stuff. It's all well
> and good when you live in a windows 32 bit bubble but in the real world
> where people often run linux (and thus Amarok) on their toasters and
> dead badgers then binaries can and, as is clearly evident, do cause
> headaches.
I'm not saying that binaries do not cause headaches, but they are not so evil. 
Even script languages can cause quite a headache (just think about language 
versions, modules, etc). Even using just bare python, same release, I can't 
run the same script on linux and win.
But.... why I'm defending binaries? Just because on some ocassions they are 
the only option to do something in a reasonable time frame.

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