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 1GFzgh-0006Cm-Fj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:50:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7NKnaqH015675; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:49:36 GMT Received: from mail.tinet.org (mail.tinet.org [195.77.216.130]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7NKlaGU001002 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:47:36 GMT Received: (qmail 26551 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2006 20:47:35 -0000 Received: from 87.red-62-57-29.user.auna.net (HELO [62.57.29.87]) (aioannis@[62.57.29.87]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.tinet.org (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Aug 2006 20:47:35 -0000 Message-ID: <44ECBEE6.8030901@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:47:34 +0200 From: Ioannis Aslanidis User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) 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] Xmms needs to die. References: <1156365020.13743.15.camel@darksytem> In-Reply-To: <1156365020.13743.15.camel@darksytem> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dbdab06e-3484-48d5-9c4f-2ba92dcc164f X-Archives-Hash: e3108d8aad415f2bee0b2b1cf62091b4 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 ? > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list