[Live-devel] Some project organization advice

[Sid Price]

Ross,

I am not going to debate whether I should be using Windows Compact 7 or not,
that is a totally different issue. We should set that discussion aside.

 

Now your suggestion of writing a new fprintf or other required functions
makes very much sense and it is the path I will investigate. Also, your
suggestion of sub classing the UsageEnvironment class also sounds like a
good approach.

 

Once again, thank you for the input,

Sid.

 

From: live-devel-bounces at ns.live555.com
[mailto:live-devel-bounces at ns.live555.com] On Behalf Of Ross Finlayson
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:18 PM
To: LIVE555 Streaming Media - development & use
Subject: Re: [Live-devel] Some project organization advice

 

I am going to be moving forward with a couple of implementations using
Live555 on embedded platforms using Windows Compact 7. My initial work
required a lot of changes to deal with the fact that all the systems are
headless and the printfs etc are not supported. 

 

In short, if you can't use our code without making a lot of changes to it,
then you probably shouldn't be using it.  (As you know, you can't expect any
support once you've made changes to the supplied code.)  Perhaps you should
try to find some other code that's specifically designed to work with
'Windows Compact 7'?

 

However, I'm not convinced that you need to make "a lot of changes" to the
code.  For starters, if your system doesn't have "fprintf()", then why not
just implement your own version.  Also, you can write your own
"UsageEnvironment" subclass that redefines the "<<" operators.  (This sort
of thing is one of the main purposes of the "UsageEnvironment" abstract base
class.)

 

However, there's a bigger issue here: I think you should reevaluate your
decision to use Windows as the OS for your embedded system.  I can
understand people still using Windows for desktop PCs (due to its large
installed base there).  But I simply don't understand why, in this day and
age, anyone would want to use Windows for an embedded system.  In today's
world, Windows is becoming increasingly irrelevant, especially for embedded
systems, where almost all of the 'top tier' developers are using Unix-based
systems (including Linux, iOS, etc.).  If you start developing embedded
systems software for Windows, you're going to find yourself in a declining
environment dominated by second-rate people, IMHO...

 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/ 

 

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