Re: [Gtkpod-devel] Speed improvements

[Dudy K. <ko...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Todd Zullinger <tm...@po...> wrote:

> Dudy Kohen wrote:
> > Since I migrated to Ubuntu I've been active in their bug tracker and
> > there is a bug regarding the responsiveness of GTKPod.
> >
> > I've commented on the bug that the improvements are in the SVN
> > without thinking that Ubuntu is one of the distributions aimed at
> > the users who are not as tech-savvy (was that spelled correctly?).
> >
> > They are asking to make a backport for 0.99.14 of these changes, do
> > you thing this is a smart move? Are there other options at our
> > disposal? When is the next release planned?
>
> It probably wouldn't be too much work to cherry pick those patches.  I
> don't think another release is imminent, but it also shouldn't be
> months and months away either.
>
> > P.S.
> > Taglib's ML seems dead, over a month with nobody answering, why
> > won't we reconsider merging the branch now that it configures
> > properly when taglib is unavailible or without my added bindings?
>
> If taglib development is a little stagnant at the moment, that means
> the odds of getting the needed improvements committed upstream are
> low, doesn't it?  If the changes to taglib aren't headed upstream, IMO
> it seems premature to include them in gtkpod.  If we do that, we could
> end up having to maintain them within gtkpod, which doesn't seem like
> the ideal situation.
>
It's one file, that contains C bindings (which have 3 other
implementations), more than 50%  of which was written by me.
In addition, the autofoo has been fixed and handles non existent taglib and
"old" bindings.

What are our other options?
Use a library that cannot write tags to some files, that hasn't been updated
for over three years?
Fork the bindings (which sounds pretty good for me now that I think about
it, why would C bindings have anything to do with KDE?)?

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