[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V2 #33

the code of ffmpeg ( http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ ) is OO and in C, and 
believe me it's really pleasant to dig into this code. Don't generalise please.

François,
who has a lot to do tomorrow. ²zZ

En réponse à Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > 
> > >I've looked at the way BONE was designed, and although it may be 
> > > fast,
> > >it is quite ugly.
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity, what about BONE struck you as ugly?  All I 
> > know
> > about BONE is what I read in the Be Newsletter article that came out
> > about
> > it, and as I recall it sounded quite nice to me...
> 
> Well, first of all, it's OOP in C, which is often a recipe for 
> ugliness. The code I've seen (*not* leaked, the sample headers that 
> were released) was a complete mess. Also, doing things in the kernel 
> meant not really being able to interact with user-space apps. For 
> instance, a net_server addon I wrote once that monitored ethernet 
> activity put up a deskbar widget. BONE add-ons couldn't do that.
> -Nathan
> 
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> 
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> 
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