[Alsaplayer-devel] Update and future direction
Andy Lo A Foe
alsa at alsaplayer.org
Sun Jan 30 21:54:48 GMT 2005
Very long time indeed :)
I've begun cleaning up some long overdue patches. I'm looking to release
I've also been thinking of where to take the AlsaPlayer project. Since
having a fulltime day job and maintaining an OSS project don't really
mix well (unless your job *is* maintaining that OSS project) I need to
make some decisions for myself. If I look at the current state I see:
* A lightweight stable audio playback core.
* A pretty good API to the core.
* A miserable user interface.
I started work on a GTK2 interface but after years of scripting and Java
coding I just don't find it interesting to write a GUI in C/C++ against
gtk2's API. So it dawned upon me, why not improve the API/CORE and leave
the GUI to seomeone else? I suck at it anyway. Or at least I think I can
do a much better job doing the UI in Python, Ruby or even (gasp!) Java...
What do you think?
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