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 1FByrG-0000HL-C4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:37:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1MIaIRs004886; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:36:18 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1MIYSSc017480 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:34:28 GMT Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-dagger.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.11]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1MIYQI1017760 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:34:26 -0500 Received: from [128.173.184.73] (gs4073.geos.vt.edu [128.173.184.73]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FGF14665; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:34:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43FCAEAB.9000509@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:34:19 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060206) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006 References: <43F72378.4080604@gentoo.org> <43FCA8DD.5040403@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43FCA8DD.5040403@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b2e7e30c-785a-4621-b142-8870e2bf2c6b X-Archives-Hash: 5ae2cfe4cfc1b92092616fefc6075813 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