Fwd: Hayes

[Charles Samuels]

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On Monday 27 January 2003 4:15, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Tuesday January 28 2003 1:00 am, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > > So now here we are in kde-policies, with a simple question:  Does the
> > > maintainer of a plugin-based application have veto power over what
> > > plugins get included in the release?  And does that veto power carry
> > > over to the kdeaddons package of extra plugins, too?
> >
> > And also, how does a kdeaddons module differ from its application's
> > actual module?
>
> Well, the name suggests it is an add-on and not part of the original
> application. You don't object to the Hayes stand-alone releases, so I can't
> see why you'd object to it being in kdeaddons.

But you see, kdeaddons is released with KDE, it's like shipping a theKompany 
app.  You can't claim that "This isn't a Noatun plugin" ... "But a vanilla 
KDE install has it."


>
> Question: why must the playlist save meta file properties? To me, the
> playlist plugin is only responsible for maintaining a collection of files,
> the "playlist". What to do with those files should be solely up to Noatun.

Well, you're confusing files with playlist items, and meta file properties 
with meta meta files.  It results in an increase in versatility for Noatun in 
general (no KFMI for, e.g., an Icecast stream), and it makes the Noatun API 
more powerful for plugin authors (for example, my examples of Ryan's Flood 
plugin)

>
> (shit, how are we supposed to form policies without technical discussion
> and arguments included?)

Well, we have two questions here:  What should we do in general, and what 
should we do for Hayes.  And it's likely that answering the latter depends on 
the former.


- -- 
Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>
"Pacifism implies quite a bit of wisdom" -- Maksim Orlovich
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