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Luis Medinas wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 20:07 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 16:30, Luis Medinas wrote: |
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>>> So i'm asking for a solution either remove xmms, move the maintainer for |
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>>> anyone who volunteer or the sound herd. |
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>> no one has answered the previous problems ... xmms is the only audioplayer |
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>> that actually works on some platforms ... |
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> Most of the gstreamer audio players works just like xine-lib based. |
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>> plus, has the audacious/gcc-4.1 issues been worked out ? |
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>>> My plans now is replace xmms for xmms2 (that i would like to take the |
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>>> maintainership). Opinions ? Ideas ? |
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>> even if you were to do that right now, xmms2 isnt even close to being ready to |
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>> replace xmms |
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> Yes you are right but atm xmms is obsolete and there is place for |
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> another player. Xmms2 is a good player that needs of course ages of |
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> development to be able to be like xmms. |
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Please don't remove it, and don't replace it with xmms2. There are far too many |
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media type plugins that work for xmms that audacious and similar players can't |
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handle. Also, will xmms plugins even work in xmms2? And isn't xmms2 still a |
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command line-only application? Not what users need or want. Perhaps the most |
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compelling reason to keep xmms around and *not* use xmms2 is the one you just made: |
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> Xmms2 is a good player that needs of course ages of |
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> development to be able to be like xmms. |
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So, don't dump a product that's not even near alpha status on users. If we want |
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to keep using software that's old, but works just fine, why force a really |
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stupid switch? |
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Can you provide a list of open fairly important bugs for xmms that provide good |
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examples of why you don't want to maintain it? Just so we can see your reasoning. |
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You may think xmms is obsolete, but it has a pretty decent niche among the |
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available player choices; I know I'm not alone in my affinity for it. Please |
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keep it. At the very least, if it has to go, don't dump a half-assed alternative |
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like xmms2 on the users -- sure, xmm2 shows a lot of promise, but it's simply |
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not ready. xmms is stable; might as well keep it around until we're so far into |
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future gcc versions that it (and gtk-1) just won't compile any longer on any |
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arch. ;) |
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