scripting proposal draft 3

[Miguel Angel Alvarez]

El Sábado 22 Marzo 2008, Mark Kretschmann escribió:
> 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.
Again, think of ways of enabling users, not disabling them (let that to M$ and 
Apple and MPAA).
You don't have to support anything. Just provide us a good interface, 
everything else is our work.


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