On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:08:13AM +0200, Andrea Rossato wrote:
To make a short story long, I needed some client for the Audacious media player, something I could use to remote control it and, since I'm addicted to Haskell, instead of surfing the web to find a suitable client I surfed the web to find the API documentation. With the FFI, in a matter of half an hour I had the client with all the commands I needed.
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So far so good, but, since everything was so easy, I thought: "Why not packaging a library (and the client) for Hackage? Maybe others may be willing to use it, maybe..."
Not only I found out that Audacious comes with a command line client named audtool, not even mentioned on their web site, but also that the API I was writing a binding for is deprecated. Forgetting to document such changes and publishing on your project's web site misleading information is harmful to others, as this example shows. I learned quite a lot today, and not only about FFI. Sorry for the noise. Andrea