Re: FFmpeg considering GIT

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: May 9, 2007, 06:38 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550705082338p1a0c003lef230f96a3219ab8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17985.19926.347089.878721@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On 5/9/07, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

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> Marco Costalba writes:
>
> > Language to use is C++, not C (much more powerful IMHO)
>
> Sorry, C++ is not an option because I dislike it so much.

Well, speaking about GUI applications, the 90% is in the graphic library and only in small part in the language. With Qt we are at 95%

Anyhow does exist also python bindings for Qt.

>  The main
> reason for changing languages would be to enable people like Linus to
> hack on it more easily, and I don't think C++ would achieve that.
>

Poor Linus ;-)

I think the design of the application states the easiness of changes, spaghetti code and bad designed functions are much worst then any ugly language you can think about.

That's for substantial changes, for one liners or for adding little features encapsulation and modularity of the code are the magical words here, and an object oriented language *could* help achieving that.

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> > P.S: If you choose Qt/C++ (the best technically speaking ;-)  please
> > you could consider starting from an already laid out code base instead
> > of starting from scratch.
> > As example, hmmmm, I think there is one called 'qgit', if I remember
> > correctly. It's nice and very very very fast.
>
> Yes, but isn't there already a talented hacker working on that? :)
>

Two is better then one :-)

  Marco