JohnSwenson;551564 Wrote: > The server (squeezeboxServer) is written in perl, the player part > (SqueezePlay) uses lua as its user interface language. > > In both cases major parts are written in C linked into the particular > interpreter. > > In the player the audio samples exist entirely in C code with the lua > code handling the UI parts (what is in a menu, what a button looks > like, what to do when a button is pushed). The actual drawing on the > frame buffer is also done by C code. > > The server is written in perl to be transportable to many different > plattforms. It uses many perl modules that have complex C > implementations but they use "standard" ones that have already been > ported to many different platforms. > > I have not spent too much time in the guts of the server so I can't > give precise details, primarily because I hate perl. I too would prefer > python. > > Lua was chosen for the player I presume because the basic > implementation of the server is quite small and it interfaces well to > underlying C code. There is a large amount of custom C code in the > player. With the player they were aiming at specific hardware > implementations so did not need to maintain portability to a large > number of platforms so large amounts of custom C code was not as big a > deal as it would be for the server. > > John S.
Thanks. That was very informative. I'm always interested in 'how things work' (I was ssh'ing into the SBRadio on the 2nd day of purchase), and this is something that a user won't find in the manual. -- Tony T Tony  SBTouch ♪ SBRadio ♬ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony T's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34544 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79212 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
