[Twisted-Python] Twisted powered network jukebox

[Michael Porter]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ippolito" <bob at redivi.com>
To: <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: [despammed] Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted powered network jukebox


>
> On Monday, Oct 6, 2003, at 15:44 America/New_York, Michael Porter wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Ippolito" <bob at redivi.com>
> > To: <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 9:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted powered network jukebox
> >
> >> On Sunday, Oct 5, 2003, at 15:46 America/New_York, Michael Porter
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've just uploaded the first public version of mpJuke, a network
> >>> jukebox
> >>> I've been working on. If you're interested take a look at the
> >>> website:
> >>>
> >>>     http://www.mpweb.dsl.pipex.com/
> >>
> >> Very cool.  I'll probably port this to OS X sometime in the near
> >> future.  Also, I have some almost-complete code lying dormant that
> >> does
> >> iTunes music sharing (server and client) that might be useful for this
> >> project.
> >
> > Glad you like it. OS X version would be good and I guess should be
> > relatively easy to port assuming the packages it requires are
> > available.
>
> The packages are all available.  I'd probably end up wanting to rewrite
> the GUI in PyObjC/Cocoa because wxPython is slow and a bit buggy, and
> more likely than not I'd also want to factor out the ResourcePackage
> thing and use the native OS X way of doing it (bundles with localizable
> resources) instead.. ResourcePackage is probably only used in the GUI
> layer anyways, right?
>
> -bob
>
ResourcePackage is really just a development tool which automatically
converts resources into Python source files. It makes things simpler if the
application is going to be frozen because you don't have to worry about file
paths. I use it to convert the web icons, CSS file etc.

Mike.