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On Monday 04 June 2007 23:40:44 darren kirby wrote: |
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> > Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? |
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> No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I |
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> would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing |
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> with it... |
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I'd rather say it's unmaintainable. People have tried and failed. It was kept |
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in the tree for years literally after it became unmaintainable because people |
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were trying. And the bugs have piled up during that period.. |
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> I am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems |
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> to be a lot of "take xmms out of my cold dead hands" sort of folks out |
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> there. |
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What surprises me is that no-one has put it in a dedicated overlay and |
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announced it for use with layman (the zugaina overlay does have it but I |
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think it contains so much other crap too that I cannot recommend using that). |
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Bo Andresen |
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