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zach-morris / plugin.program.iagl

The Internet Archive Game Launcher (IAGL) will launch Games from the Internet using Kodi
GNU General Public License v3.0
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IAGL suggestion #211

Closed dicotom closed 3 years ago

dicotom commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Wouldn't it be much much much better if you would make your own front-end for IAGL?

What is the purpose of Kodi? You needed to rewrite IAGL for kodi 19 which does not make sense, when you could make your own front-end.

zach-morris commented 3 years ago

There's a lot to consider in that question. Kodi provides the multi-os available framework for the front end, which in my opinion is invaluable. I can't think of, off the top of my head, another framework that would provide the multi-os, multi-input (keyboard, controller, remote), multi-skin capabilities that Kodi does while providing the add-in capability that it does. Maybe they exist, but I'd likely trade re-writing python code for writing code in another language and then some. As the readme says, I'm not a programmer, so the fact that this works is a small miracle in and of itself. Thankfully python is an easy language to work with and probably one of the easiest languages to write while learning...

dicotom commented 3 years ago

Yes, I understand, but I was not thinking about another framework, but writing a front-end in python, which will obviously work on any os. Anyway you have done a remarkable job.

Ha yes, I forgot that kodi has his own kodi retroplayer.

zach-morris commented 3 years ago

Closing for now. Maybe someday, or if I'm stuck at home during the next pandemic.... I'm envisioning like an electron app or something only containing IAGL