scripting proposal draft 3

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 3/22/08, Miguel Angel Alvarez <maacruz at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'd like to add my little grain of sand (I'm the replaygain script's writer)
>
>  El Viernes 21 Marzo 2008, Peter Zhou escribió:
>  > Part 3:
>  > The goal of the script manager is to keep scripts updated and to make some
>  > hard
>  > rules when scripts communicate with Amarok, to insure the script is written
>  > in
>  > some scripting language not binary, have its dependency checked, run with
>  > the
>  > right Amarok version, run with the right platform, and etc.
>
> DON'T!
>  You shoundn't enforce any particular or personal preferences about scripts.
>  Let the script writers deal with that. If someone want's to go binary, it is
>  his election.
>  The issue of dependencies is very complex, and distribution dependant. There
>  is no safe way to deal with all of them, so I also think that the script
>  writer should deal with it. What you could provide, is some way to register
>  the executable (even different executables depending on plataform) with
>  amarok. Right now amarok just picks anything executable under the scripts
>  directory, which is not the best strategy.

Again, binary scripts are a no-go. They will not be supported.

-- 
Mark