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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GFzRf-0007lU-Ub for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:35:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7NKY3uj028862; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:34:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7NKUPKZ009963 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:30:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.168.2] (unknown [82.155.53.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20CF644D3; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die. From: Luis Medinas To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, sound@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:30:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1156365020.13743.15.camel@darksytem> 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 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 94d1bc48-4dd7-4150-9cc6-9f7e1dd5029d X-Archives-Hash: 892af24926074a0b0a3543f3c4f6c980 Hi everyone. I'm the current maintainer for xmms and all plugins. As you all know xmms is writen over GTK+-1. This toolkit is not supported by the upstream like xmms. We have lot's of dead upstream plugins on portage and this is a pain to maintain like xmms itself. You might want to look at our patchset that contains fixes for 'millions' of bugs. We have a few alternatives like audacious, gstreamer based players and xine-lib players (did i forget anything ?). The problem is that this players doesn't support a few audiotypes or plugins that xmms currently does. So i'm asking for a solution either remove xmms, move the maintainer for anyone who volunteer or the sound herd. My plans now is replace xmms for xmms2 (that i would like to take the maintainership). Opinions ? Ideas ? -- Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list