Re: [gentoo-dev] beep-media-player removal: 04/03/2006

[Mart Raudsepp]

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.

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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/

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