Re: Hal script to index removable storage medium ?

2008-07-11 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:03 AM, D Bera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not much familiar with HAL scripts and how the nice popups Open the Audio CD in Amarok shows up when I insert an audio cd. Essentially what happens is that when you attach a device, HAL notices through the hotplug

Google protocol buffers

2008-07-11 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, In case you didn't see it, Google released their protocol buffers as open source the other day: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html One of the big weaknesses in Beagle is that the messaging system between beagled and

Re: Google protocol buffers

2008-07-11 Thread Brad Taylor
Hey, In case you didn't see it, Google released their protocol buffers as open source the other day: Now I haven't done that much research into Google's protocol buffers, but from first blush, this seems similar in spirit to Thrift[1], which is a lightweight, cross-platform binary

Re: Google protocol buffers

2008-07-11 Thread Joe Shaw
Hey, On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I haven't done that much research into Google's protocol buffers, but from first blush, this seems similar in spirit to Thrift[1], which is a lightweight, cross-platform binary serialization method, and works with

Re: Google protocol buffers

2008-07-11 Thread D Bera
One of the big weaknesses in Beagle is that the messaging system between beagled and beagled-index-helper and between beagled and clients is a slow, bloated XML format. Its actually not that bad :-D. I used to think the same for a long long time. Then I did some experiments and it turned out