On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:12:07 -0700, Tyler Larson fedora-devel@tlarson.com wrote:
So, would there be any serious negative consequences of keeping xmms around until a more suitable replacement could be found? What sort of cost/benefit are we talking about in relation to this change?
I think one underlying goal is to get to a point where the underlying gtk1 libraries are no longer needed in core and can be removed. Being able to remove all of the application that are still using the older gtk libs is a much bigger gain over all. If removing the legacy gtk1 libs is an important goal then replacing xmms with the gtk2 based bmp (aka beep) might be a solution which provides close to enough functionality without getting into complicated discussion about the roles specific music applications are providing, since i believe bmp's objective is to be a gtk2 port of xmms. I could be wrong.. someone with experience using both xmms and bmp should comment about how well bmp matches xmms functionality at this point.
If however the goal is to general narrow the number of overlapping applications, thats a tougher discussion, and would have to compare and contrast the music applications in Core across a number of different technical measures...and will end like all of these sorts of discussions end... with a dance dance revolution dance-off between designated champions for each application.
-jef"Core should be including pydance as a community oriented decision making tool"spaleta