* [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 @ 2006-02-18 13:39 Tony Vroon 2006-02-22 18:09 ` Donnie Berkholz 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Tony Vroon @ 2006-02-18 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev, sound -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006, unless anyone can convince me of a good reason why they should stay. This software has been abandoned by it's authors since October 2005, and is masked starting today. Note that a currently active fork exists (Audacious), which has absorbed the necessary functionality to play all formats that BMP would have needed a plugin for. The 0.1.2 release of Audacious has the same stable keywords that beep-media-player has, and should prove to be an effortless upgrade. For anyone running ~arch, release 0.2 is available. Audacious is the recommended upgrade path from beep-media-player. Most, if not all the bmp plugins available in portage have already been absorbed into this program. Regards, Tony (Chainsaw) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD9yN4p5vW4rUFj5oRAtAdAJ0TYr+eTsWeECYOEo8VUwPgdHs8rACgp8Q3 kntZ1IUZiBPBOeCDzPDPKiM= =/2To -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-18 13:39 [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 Tony Vroon @ 2006-02-22 18:09 ` Donnie Berkholz 2006-02-22 18:22 ` Wernfried Haas ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Donnie Berkholz @ 2006-02-22 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: sound [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 839 bytes --] Tony Vroon wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and > accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006, > unless > anyone can convince me of a good reason why they should stay. > This software has been abandoned by it's authors since October 2005, > and is > masked starting today. Um, it doesn't look abandoned to me, just the 0.x branch of it mostly. There's an update on the website from 2 days ago. http://www.beep-media-player.org/site/About says: "Please be aware that 'BMPx' is merely a codename for the project, and at some point we'll decide that it's ready to get out of beta stage and will release it as BMP 2.0. In other words, BMPx is BMP, just not quite yet; yet it already is much more than BMP ever was." Thanks, Donnie [-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 191 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-22 18:09 ` Donnie Berkholz @ 2006-02-22 18:22 ` Wernfried Haas 2006-02-22 18:34 ` Stephen P. Becker 2006-02-22 19:56 ` Tony Vroon 2 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Wernfried Haas @ 2006-02-22 18:22 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 467 bytes --] On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:09:33AM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > http://www.beep-media-player.org/site/About says: As far i understand it and according to the description of the ebuild that one is media-sound/bmpx, not media-sound/beep-media-player. confusion++ ;-) cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org IRC: #gentoo-forums on freenode - email: forum-mods at gentoo dot org [-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 191 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-22 18:09 ` Donnie Berkholz 2006-02-22 18:22 ` Wernfried Haas @ 2006-02-22 18:34 ` Stephen P. Becker 2006-02-22 18:45 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 2006-02-22 19:56 ` Tony Vroon 2 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Stephen P. Becker @ 2006-02-22 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Tony Vroon wrote: >> Good afternoon, >> >> Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and >> accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006, >> unless >> anyone can convince me of a good reason why they should stay. >> This software has been abandoned by it's authors since October 2005, >> and is >> masked starting today. Ouch, this is really bad for mips. BMP is really the only decently modern gui-fied mp3 player in portage which actually works for us (aside from the horribly ugly xmms). Anything gstreamer or xine-lib based is unusable (ping me on irc if you want more information). > Um, it doesn't look abandoned to me, just the 0.x branch of it mostly. > There's an update on the website from 2 days ago. > > http://www.beep-media-player.org/site/About says: > > "Please be aware that 'BMPx' is merely a codename for the project, and > at some point we'll decide that it's ready to get out of beta stage and > will release it as BMP 2.0. > > In other words, BMPx is BMP, just not quite yet; yet it already is much > more than BMP ever was." Ugh, it looks like this new 'BMPx' branch uses gstreamer. Is there no way to keep the good old clean, working version of BMP in portage? -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-22 18:34 ` Stephen P. Becker @ 2006-02-22 18:45 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 2006-02-24 3:02 ` George Prowse 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò @ 2006-02-22 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 363 bytes --] On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Ugh, it looks like this new 'BMPx' branch uses gstreamer. Is there no > way to keep the good old clean, working version of BMP in portage? That is audacious. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE [-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 191 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-22 18:45 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò @ 2006-02-24 3:02 ` George Prowse 2006-02-24 3:13 ` Stephen Bennett 2006-02-24 7:22 ` Luca Barbato 0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: George Prowse @ 2006-02-24 3:02 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 537 bytes --] No, BPMx and Audacious are two different things http://audacious-media-player.org/FAQ#1.4 On 22/02/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > Ugh, it looks like this new 'BMPx' branch uses gstreamer. Is there no > > way to keep the good old clean, working version of BMP in portage? > That is audacious. > > -- > Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ > Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE > > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 952 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-24 3:02 ` George Prowse @ 2006-02-24 3:13 ` Stephen Bennett 2006-02-24 7:22 ` Luca Barbato 1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Stephen Bennett @ 2006-02-24 3:13 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:02:32 +0000 "George Prowse" <cokehabit@gmail.com> wrote: > No, BPMx and Audacious are two different things Err, I think that might have been his point. > > http://audacious-media-player.org/FAQ#1.4 > > On 22/02/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > > Ugh, it looks like this new 'BMPx' branch uses gstreamer. Is > > > there no way to keep the good old clean, working version of BMP > > > in portage? > > That is audacious. > > > > -- > > Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ > > Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE > > > > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-24 3:02 ` George Prowse 2006-02-24 3:13 ` Stephen Bennett @ 2006-02-24 7:22 ` Luca Barbato 2006-02-24 7:41 ` Mart Raudsepp 1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Luca Barbato @ 2006-02-24 7:22 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev 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? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-24 7:22 ` Luca Barbato @ 2006-02-24 7:41 ` Mart Raudsepp 0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Mart Raudsepp @ 2006-02-24 7:41 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-dev 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 2006-02-22 18:09 ` Donnie Berkholz 2006-02-22 18:22 ` Wernfried Haas 2006-02-22 18:34 ` Stephen P. Becker @ 2006-02-22 19:56 ` Tony Vroon 2 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Tony Vroon @ 2006-02-22 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw To: Donnie Berkholz; +Cc: gentoo-dev, sound -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Tony Vroon wrote: >> Good afternoon, >> >> Please note that I am planning to remove beep-media-player and >> accompanying plugin packages from the portage tree on March 4, 2006, >> unless >> anyone can convince me of a good reason why they should stay. >> This software has been abandoned by it's authors since October 2005, >> and is >> masked starting today. > > Um, it doesn't look abandoned to me, just the 0.x branch of it mostly. > There's an update on the website from 2 days ago. > > http://www.beep-media-player.org/site/About says: > > "Please be aware that 'BMPx' is merely a codename for the project, and > at some point we'll decide that it's ready to get out of beta stage and > will release it as BMP 2.0 It is bmpx right now; and the legacy BMP code is abandoned and unmaintained. If it ever wants to return to the beep-media-player name, it would be nice if all incompatible plugin packages etc are gone. When beep-media-player "Classic" and it's friend the bmp USE-flag have left the building, I will remove the mask after a few months and the package name is up for grabs. For now BMPx is actively maintained while BMP is not. So BMP needs to go. Regards, Tony. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD/MHgp5vW4rUFj5oRApyUAJ0ddia9xStlBh4wKnLxQb89XOcQaQCggZgk Qf8batt9qk7E4NFYlwNeNac= =Tauz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
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