Heh, never played with it myself, so now I'm embarrassed. But it certainly looks feasible that one could, in fact, write a media center entirely in python. Apologies, Duane. On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/25/08, Duane Ryan <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You might want to look at (or maybe even port, since it claims to be > > cross-platform!) Elisa Media Center: > > http://www.fluendo.com/products.php?product=mediacenter . > > It's a cool project written (almost?) entirely in Python. > > So I have confirmed why I do not care to develop for anything in the > Linux community. > > I tried to download and play around with Elisa on my Ubuntu machine > but even after installing its *quadrillion* dependencies it still > wouldn't work. It complains about some missing directory for some i18n > plug-in and then just sits there. Nothing in the documentation > mentions certain plug-ins being required. > > There is no way I would want to port something like this. Horrible. > > Obviously annoyed, > Ryan > >