Pygmy… and Bantu?

So. Many updates with Pygmy lately. I rewrote the way it con­nects to MPD using a Sin­gle­ton, so there’s only ever one, no mat­ter if you change the port, open the browser, etc. Makes it all very sta­ble. For exam­ple, (I haven’t writ­ten this capa­bil­ity yet) you’ll be able to update your music data­base and not have to close/reopen the browser win­dow. Neat.

Deck­lin Fos­ter also graced us with his pres­ence (and code) this past week­end and he has already made some good improve­ments on my code. He also has some good ideas about what to do in the future. For exam­ple, he has started imple­ment­ing a pars­ing engine using the empy sys­tem. I haven’t tried this out (or even heard of it before Deck­lin men­tioned it), but I look for­ward to it. (As of now, Deck­lin has access to and will be patch­ing our SVN tree. He also rec­om­mended we give the browser win­dow a name, Bantu. I like this because that gives cre­dence to the (even­tual) fact that you can run the browser on its own.

All in all, it’s been a fun time. This project has increas­ingly been a learn­ing expe­ri­ence in OSS devel­op­ment and as such, has been con­stantly hum­bling! Decklin’s patches, for exam­ple, have focused on clean­ing up some of my badly orga­nized code, which is a result of me learn­ing how to do things as I’m imple­ment­ing them. There are inter­est­ing ways of cat­e­go­riz­ing and clas­si­fy­ing things; Python keeps on impress­ing me!

Look for a release in the next few days!