Hi Marius in the next mahor release (0.90) we plan to completly rewrite large parts of multisync to overcome the design limitations of todays multisync. We plan to use DBus (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus) to communicate between syncengine and plugins. Therefore you could write plugins in any language that works with dbus (c, python, java so far afaik). There probably will be or are already ways to use c++ with dbus.
And yes, we would like to have gui and syncengine separated and independent of each other (so that programers can integrate their own multisync gui into their apps) To your last question: All functions in the plugins are called with dlopen. so it should be possible to write plugins in c++ (correct me if im wrong) Armin On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:29, Marius Kotsbak wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:32:13AM +0100, Bo Lincoln wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Yes, I agree we should definately have 0.82 release with bug fixes. I'm > > not sure about the help and internationalization features; since so much > > will have to be rewritten for 0.90 I would guess it's better to wait for > > those features until then. > > > > Inclusion into core Gnome is another issue. I'm a happy Gnome user > > myself, but what about the rest of you? Somebody suggested a > > multisync-daemon and independent GUI, not to to tie up MultiSync to one > > desktop. Comments? > > Have you thought of converting MS to C++ and gtk--? It would make it > _much_ easier to develop on it. > > This because you could use classes as interfaces instead of function pointers used > today, which force you to look up in doc or > code too see which functions are callback functions. > > And it is easier to use a "object oriented" GUI like GTK in an object oriented > language like C++ > (you can overload constructors and don't need long function names to > make them unique, and can probably cast GUI objects in a C++ way instead of using > utility functions). > > BTW: could I write a plugin using GTK--/C++ and have it working with > MS of today? > > Marius K ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http://www.wrgsurveys.com/2003/osdntech03.php?site=8 _______________________________________________ Multisync-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/multisync-devel
