Hmm...a lot of interesting thoughts here. I think we are overlooking a lot of important Slim flexibility.
The web interface attempts to be all things to all people on all platforms (combinations of O/S and browser). As such, I think it ends up being jack of all trades, master of none. A tremendous amount of work has gone into the CLI since Slimserver 5 days, and it now seems to be quite a viable interface. There are bulk data extraction options, event driven options with the listeners, there is current status stuff that is fast. That gives people who want a different interface the ability to write their own. Or use someone elses. Moose is one. For all that people like or don't like .net, the version I downloaded some time ago was quite serviceable and I gather it's improved since. I considered writing one in my favorite language, Visual Foxpro. It won't port to a mac, but I don't own one. It won't run on Linux, but I don't have any of those either. Nor a Unix. I also don't have a Cray. The point is, sometimes you can do a better job, especially when trying to do graphics rich, highly interactive things, when you do get a bit more implementation specific. There's nothing wrong with that, and nothing that offends the gods of cross-platform. No one says the whole thing, and everything that anyone would ever chose to use with it, has to run on every conceivable platform from Windows to a slug to my toaster. For instance, everyone has their own music ripper. These pretty much line up by platform. No one seems to feel that you have to run a perl based CD ripper in order to be following the spirit of Slim. Similarly, there'd be nothing wrong with a windows only UI implementation, running as a CLI client and a totally different one for the mac, for the palm, for the penguin, etc. Trying to make them all run one set of common code might well, unfortunately, end up with a least common denominator UI. And that might be pretty sad. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25395 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
