Re: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die.

[Ioannis Aslanidis <aslanidis@gmail.com>]

xmms2 and audacious sound good ;)

Luis Medinas wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
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