On Sep 24, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Charles Hartman wrote:
Ah, you're right. I remembered the Oracle limitation, but over-
generalized.
But $149 for the plugin is not what I would call "inexpensive." I
suppose if you start from a RunRev assumption, and have
(remunerative) applications for it, then it is; if you start from
a Dreamcard assumption, no.
Yeah, I agree the plug-in is kind of expensive for personal hobby
use. If it were me, I'd take a different approach.
Rev front end, talking over a TCP socket to a Python back end.
Python (plus pysqlite2) for the back end.
Python I know. SQLite I don't, but I should learn. Do you know of an
OSX pysqlite binary distributable, aside from Darwinports (which has
been messy when I've tried to use it in the past)?
Sockets I've never dealt with. Time to learn that too, I guess.
Not sure, but I'd probably make the socket protocol take SQL
statements and return lists of results (as well as any other
command + responses I felt would be useful).
freedb.org has some data that would be a basic start for data entry
- doesn't have anything like the complete data you want, but it
would be a start if you could get track names from there - you'd
still need to add the author and individual player info.
If you're interested in collaborating (and assuming it's going to
be Open Source when you're done) I'd be interested in helping,
particularly with the Python / sockets parts ..... I'd probably
want to make it capable of storing multiple tunes per CD track and
some other things that I think would be extensions beyond what
you'd need.
I'm sorely tempted. But I'd have to do this stealing time from
teaching and closer-to-home research, and I'd be afraid I wouldn't be
a very reliable collaborator. Maybe we could at least trade some
ideas off-list about how it ought to work?
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