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Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> Hi, guys |
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> Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I |
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> remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under |
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> development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has |
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> recent news including the one from the subject of this e-mail. Its date |
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> is Oct 24, 2006 and has only a picture which represents a sailor waving |
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> for good-bye to someone or something (my first assoc. is sinking ship). |
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> So whats going on? |
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> [1] http://www.xmms.org/ |
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XMMS was dropped since it had many bugs, dead upstream, and no maintainer. |
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Essentially it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo developers time and patience |
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and so the hard decision was made to let it go. |
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The whole shebang is covered in quite a bit in the forums. |
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Steve |
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