Change of Sonance Plans
After a few posts about Remix (now named Sonance), and getting ready for the first public release, I had a sudden life changing experience as a developer. I discoverd development under Mono. After quickly learning C# and exploring the .NET libraries and the GNOME/GTK bindings for Mono, I wrote a few test programs, and started rewiriting/porting Sonance to C#. Amazingly, the power of the language and bindings are allowing me to more efficiently develop Sonance, and in much less time. In just one week, I have re-developed Sonance with less code, to the same point that the C version was developed in about a month.
The major struggle was the lack of good documentation on the GStreamer bindings for C#, gst-sharp. I have been able to find about three gst-sharp applications. And honestly, and with no disrespect to their developers, their implementations are not very solid, nor featurefull. So in addition to porting Sonance, and developing a much better code base, I have developed a strong gst-sharp player with metadata support.
I am really excited about the rewrite, and new beginnings with the Mono platform. I still love C, but welcome the ease and power of this new platform. It is clearly the new path for GNOME, and I am glad to be a part of it.
