Re: remove xview?
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:49:46PM +0100, Volker Ossenkopf wrote:
> community using them. I am myself convinced that none of the
> existing replacements for workman are comparably simple, flexible
> and powerful. I did not find any replacement for workman that
> satisfied my needs.
Both gnome and kde include simple cd players. For those who don't
want a desktop environment, I would suggest grip[1], or one of the
many xmms replacements.
> Therefore it would be clearly preferable if
> we manage to get the 64bit support into xview, but as far as I have
> looked into the code, this is non-trivial.
If none of the alternative players is acceptable, rather than using
voodoo patches to resurrect a dead library, the time could be spent
making a 1:1 GUI copy of workman with something modern, like
python-gtk2.
It's not only lack of 64bit that makes xview a problem. If security
issues withing xview are found, it is unlikely that they get fixed
in a timely manner.
> Counting upstream dates
> is no good criterion, because for my two packages all the development
> in the last years has happened inside the Debian package. The
> popcon is probably a much better guideline.
Popcon tells there is still some users. It does not tell how many
are using them merely out of old habit and would not be satisfied
with one of the alternatives. Ofcourse, breaking old habits is
often hard, as has been seen with the xmms thread.
[1] apt-get install grip or http://nostatic.org/grip/
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