From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCXdg-00061X-Jt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:45:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1O7iYBv020851; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:44:34 GMT Received: from mx1.starman.ee (smtp-out2.starman.ee [85.253.0.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1O7fUFi027818 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:41:30 GMT Received: from ip44.cab62.mus.starman.ee (ip44.cab62.mus.starman.ee [82.131.62.44]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F5223C157 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:41:26 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43FEB423.9050500@gentoo.org> References: <43F72378.4080604@gentoo.org> <43FCA8DD.5040403@gentoo.org> <43FCAEAB.9000509@gentoo.org> <200602221946.01709@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <36babadf0602231902t40f4ea06q@mail.gmail.com> <43FEB423.9050500@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:41:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1140766869.11417.8.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.91 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee X-Archives-Salt: 7a6bb8e1-5cbd-4714-bee0-620cce8d5b8b X-Archives-Hash: 764fd39fbeb7f11dd2c2c6b7801e7534 On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 08:22 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > George Prowse wrote: > > No, BPMx and Audacious are two different things > > > > bmpx is using large frameworks and have some deps that makes it in the > league of amarok totem and friends, call them large players > > bmp is in the league of zinf xmms audacious xmms2 (to a degree) and so > on, call them light players. > > Now, bmp is phased out, which is the gtk2 light player that could match > it's deps and features best? Ok, I guess I can have my try on explaining this once and for all :) BMP main authors started work on BMPx when BMP was around the 0.9.7 versions. BMP was not seeing any new features, and at one point was not maintained anymore, either. Audacious took BMP version 0.9.7.1 code, and worked on top of that, because BMP was unmaintained, and a couple other reasons that one can read from the Audacious FAQ. BMPx is pretty much a rewrite of the player, not having much inherited from XMMS code. So, if you want BMP, get Audacious - it is an advancement to the last released version of BMP. BMPx is a rewrite in progress for a more heavyweight player using lots of modern day tools and libraries (GTK+ 2.8+, cairo, gstreamer-0.10/xine probably SVG for skins soon if not already, etc). As a conclusion, if you used BMP for your lightweight player, you probably want audacious, if you don't want to try a more different thing. Hope this clears things up. -- With regards, Mart Raudsepp Project manager of wxMUD - http://wxmud.sourceforge.net/ Developer of wxWidgets - http://www.wxwidgets.org/ GTK+ port maintainer of OMGUI - http://www.omgui.org/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list