On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:44:00 -0400 Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:18:46PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: > > I think this can be solved by developing a metadata protocol > > between apps, so the can intercommunicate > > status and other things, and having a "master" app that manages > > projects and things like that, by just > > retrieving/storing status in the other apps. > > Yes yes yes yes. We *need* something like this. > > Even if some people want to write enormous monolithic apps, what > happens when there's that one little thing you need another jack > client for? Ooops, you're outside the box and off into modular > world. It's inevitable. > I think something like that could be extremely useful, and not only for audio. Also if a certain program only supports commandline, even a shell/perl script wrapper for it could be useful. How do you think the implementation should be? I cant think of much, but i think even a simple communication protocol that can send tree-organized data between apps over either tcp or unix sockets should be enough.. Also this way it could save/load data from XML files. I think XML is very important for this because 1-It's standard 2-If we dont use it, We'll have all the xml lovers saying the lib is crap because it doesnt use XML ;) Cheers Juan Linietsky
