Re: WombatShare 3rd party Sharing possibility...

Kristian Kvilekval wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:08, Ciaran wrote:
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>>No real reason at the minute, I don't want to open the source up yet 
>>[it looks a mess right now]  
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>Fixing up messes and improving quality is what 
>open-source is all about. 
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True, but like I said I may open in the future, i'd also be worried 
about other people releasing different versions of it causing confusion 
and all sorts :(

>>The reason why you can't distribute a 
>>closed-source plugin, is that because it has to be 
>>compile-from-source-able ?
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>Exactly plus the above.
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>>Is there any SDK/Documentation on implementing plugins for Zinf?
>>Thanks,
>>- Ciaran
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>Documentation is really only in the source.  Best
>documentation is an example, no?  You are probably interested
>in mdb (music database), ui/musicbrowser (gtk2.X music browser), 
>ui/musicbrowsermm (gtkmm browser), ui/download (defunct emusic
>downloader).
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Marvelous thanks :)
 -Ciaran

>>Kristian Kvilekval wrote:
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>>>Zinf supports plugins and is probably suitable considering its 
>>>music library functions.  However, why is your tool closed
>>>source?  I know I could not distribute your closed-source plugin
>>>(nor could most of our packagers debian, mandrake, etc).
>>>
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>>>On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 11:53, Ciaran wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>I'm currently implementing (or trying to at least) a mechanism to allow 
>>>>sharing between multiple media players.  I was wondering if you thought 
>>>>Zinf might be a suitable candidate for this.  WombatShare is currently 
>>>>closed source (although this is not neccessarily true forever, just for 
>>>>now).   How difficult would integrating it into the Music Library whilst 
>>>>maintaining as a closed 3rd party unit be?  Does Zinf have any support 
>>>>for plugins etc ?
>>>>If you don't think its suitable then thats cool, I just want to know
>>>>Cheers
>>>>
>>>>More Info @ http:\\www.wombatinvasion.com\
>>>>
>>>>
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