2004-12-07, 18:06
hello to all the nice people that keep on suprising us with wonderfull software :bowdown: .
the other day i was thinking about learning either cocoa or python
(with cocoa bindings) for mac os x and at that point thought it might be best to learn cocoa....
but after being busy softmodding a box of a friend of mine
(and knowing i have to do a lot more in the near future)
i got interested in writing a nice installer.
it wasn't very hard for me to decide to use the python interpreter
included in xbmc (which kicks ass :kickass: ).
i know that there are other installers out there
and as a matter of fact i have not even checked them out,
just beause i think this would be a nice situation to learn python.
but i don't want to reinvent the wheel.
what i would like to do is this:
- boot into xbmc using either the 007, mechassualt or splintercell
save game exploit. (i myself have ma so i would start on that.)
- autoexec a installer script that would first of all install the uxe hack.
- then install "packages" that reside in folder.
these packages can be anything like xbmc, avalaunch,
evox, unleashx etc.
- the installer should also write the correct settings to all the ini files
of the packages. like static ip addresses, passwords etc.
- maybe even pick alternative packages up from a server,
or even better check a public bittorrent tracker for
new available packages (but this is just some future music
also because of the legitacy of a public bittorrent tracker
with packages. however it is done for the slayerz installer)
- and of course because were booted in xbmc,
maybe play some music in the background
whilst installing your xbox..
so here are my questions:
a) has somebody already written a installer in python for the xbox. i couldn't find one...
b) if it does not already exist, are there people interested in such a installer.
c) better yet, are there people interested in co-writing such a installer,
because atm i can't write one line of python, but that shouldn't be to hard ,
and because i only have very limited time.
d) or any other thoughts.....
pfew... that was one hell of post for my standards.
so i will not totally check it for spell or grammar faults,
english is not my native language :nuts:
kind regards,
el_oy
the other day i was thinking about learning either cocoa or python
(with cocoa bindings) for mac os x and at that point thought it might be best to learn cocoa....
but after being busy softmodding a box of a friend of mine
(and knowing i have to do a lot more in the near future)
i got interested in writing a nice installer.
it wasn't very hard for me to decide to use the python interpreter
included in xbmc (which kicks ass :kickass: ).
i know that there are other installers out there
and as a matter of fact i have not even checked them out,
just beause i think this would be a nice situation to learn python.
but i don't want to reinvent the wheel.
what i would like to do is this:
- boot into xbmc using either the 007, mechassualt or splintercell
save game exploit. (i myself have ma so i would start on that.)
- autoexec a installer script that would first of all install the uxe hack.
- then install "packages" that reside in folder.
these packages can be anything like xbmc, avalaunch,
evox, unleashx etc.
- the installer should also write the correct settings to all the ini files
of the packages. like static ip addresses, passwords etc.
- maybe even pick alternative packages up from a server,
or even better check a public bittorrent tracker for
new available packages (but this is just some future music
also because of the legitacy of a public bittorrent tracker
with packages. however it is done for the slayerz installer)
- and of course because were booted in xbmc,
maybe play some music in the background
whilst installing your xbox..
so here are my questions:
a) has somebody already written a installer in python for the xbox. i couldn't find one...
b) if it does not already exist, are there people interested in such a installer.
c) better yet, are there people interested in co-writing such a installer,
because atm i can't write one line of python, but that shouldn't be to hard ,
and because i only have very limited time.
d) or any other thoughts.....
pfew... that was one hell of post for my standards.
so i will not totally check it for spell or grammar faults,
english is not my native language :nuts:
kind regards,
el_oy