From: aeriksson@fastmail.fm
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org,
"Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:17:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051016211626.BB84E3B821@tippex.mynet.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510161859.41787@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>
> Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end.
>
> media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and
> is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS has
> currently no upstream and there's no maintainer.
>
> One week from now, rmxmms will be out of portage.
>
> Please note: if in one week or a bit more nobody steps up for maintaining XMMS
> in portage, I'll start a phase out of XMMS itself, this means closing all its
> new plugins' ebuilds as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins with bugs
> open to remove them.
>
> We're plenty of alternatives :)
>
Your mail triggered me to search for alternatives. Any suggestion? Currently
checking mpd and its frontends. At first glance, they all seem a bit limited.
But I like the approach with a separate core for the player logic...
/A
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-16 16:59 [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-10-16 19:22 ` Luis Medinas
2005-10-16 22:01 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-10-16 23:23 ` Luis Medinas
2005-10-16 21:17 ` aeriksson [this message]
2005-10-16 22:00 ` Chris Gianelloni
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