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 1GcHFJ-0005Q4-Rc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:02:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9O7xVE5026335; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:59:31 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9O7vOQR001947 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:57:24 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B0CB2027E8 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:57:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B2C2023DC for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:57:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.4) with ESMTPS id 17701105 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:57:23 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:57:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20061024070840.GA7612@atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at> In-Reply-To: <20061024070840.GA7612@atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610240957.22222.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 117fea53-3bb0-4fa2-9444-00c1f46a68b3 X-Archives-Hash: 42afdbe416b56908df3dc5a35a32e4cb On Tuesday 24 October 2006 09:08, local account for liebichw wrote: > Hi, > I've been using xmms for the last ... n years :-) (b/c it was reasonably > simple, allowed control via xmms-shell, too & didn't pull in too much > (ok, except gtk 1 - which is a nuisance). Why the sudden death? it death was not sudden. It is dead for years. Last release was two and a half year ago. It devs ceased any developing. It depends on a toolkit, that is dead too. Security problems and other bugs were not patched anymore. No maintainace release, nothing. It is full of bugs (-r16 should have told you, that there are lots of probs), there are lots of open bugs in the gentoo bugzilla that are so old, that they started to have children, saw them grow up, got to school, finish school, marry and have little bug children themselves. In short: it was hardly maintainable anymore and nobody stepped up to do it anyway. And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and working successors: they get killed. Everybody who reads gentoo-dev once in a while knew, that this day would come - and nobody should really be surprised. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list