On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:15:52 +0200 Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What append with the alsaplayer? It is a really nice little player with some > unique feature such its speed control. > > Gentoo have removed it from portage because, according to gentoo's devs, it is > no maintained upstream. If I look on alsaplayer email list, a debian's dev send > a few patch to correct some security bugs. Those patches work very well and > they have not even been incorporated in the cvs or in a bugs correction release. > > It will be really sad if such a player will disappear. I don't care of the look > of a program so long at it do the work. And it is the only one that have a > speed control. I done an alsaplayer-mixer for fvwm with the capability to > change the pitch by a value of a comma around the normal speed, and by halve > notes after. > > I don't understand why this project is dead. The old gtk1 release with the > debian patches compile just fine even on gcc-4.1.1. The cvs version fail to > compile in my box (gentoo), but it seam to be a gtk2 problem, not an internal > API problem. The fix in the case of the gtk1 release is to incorporate the > debian patches. In the case of the cvs version and its gtk2 interface, some > programmers have to look in the code. > > So, it is 2 problems. > > 1) It is no maintainer for the gtk1 release. It is very > sad because it is not a full time job at all. > > 2) More work is needed for the gtk2 release. I personally don't care about it > if it is no new features with it beside the look but, and it is a big but, I > think at on the long run, a gtk2 interface is a must have in order to archive > the succes of this program. > > Dominique > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > Some security flaws were recently discovered in alsaplayer; since nobody maintains it, nobody is going to fix the flaws, I guess. I think that's the reason why it has been removed. --Sergei. -- Visit my http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ open source project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
