iPod and generic music player support (was: Re: [mythtv] Fwd: New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins)

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 07 October 2005 01:46 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu>:
> > On Friday 07 October 2005 12:56 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Quoting Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu>:
> >> > glib kills it from being used in myth.
> >>
> >> Why?
> >
> > Because one small additional dependency is acceptable - it may even
> > be able to
> > be included directly.  glib is not small, and it's not something I want
> > myth to depend on.
>
> Okay.. So what's your definition of "small"?  Are you talking about
> the size of the .so?  the number of source files in the library?
> the size of the library source tarball?  the time it takes to build
> the library?  I'm just curious.

All of the above, really.

> Just for comparision, libglib.so is 500KB, libqt-mt.so is 7.1MB.
> I don't have libgpod installed so I dont know its size.

glib duplicates functionality already present in c++ and qt.  I see no need to 
depend on it.  I don't even have it installed on my myth box.

Isaac