[Alsaplayer-devel] new admin, debian security patches and broken gtk2 interface

[Dominique Michel]

Le Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:42:16 +0100,
"Basil Achermann" <29tpyo5mejhkntt at jetable.com> a écrit :

> Hi Dominique,
> 
> Glad to see somebody actually doing something again!!
> 
> Are you also a web admin? 

I think so. I have access to shell server group space, so I must read the doc
to understand exactly what it mean and how it work.

>I guess if you really want this project to live
> on, at least the project page should be updated once in a while. With the
> latest news item being almost 3 years old, and broken (as well as missing)
> links in the "related projects" list, could anyone not think that the
> project is dead?

I will look at it. What are the missing related projects?

> 
> I'm not sure about the nature of the most recent changes. However, if nobody
> has the time to look at them, I would roll back and (manually) apply the
> patches to a compilable version. Don't release a version that doesn't
> compile!
I know that.

I am just looking at it. It appear at it is enough to change 2 files in order
to get the cvs to compile:
- comment out or reverse the last change in interface/gtk2/Makefile.am (comment
out line 11)
- comment out lines 765 to 768 in interface/gtk2/main.cpp

The gtk2 interface start and even play the last loaded playlist, but only a few
functionalities are working. And the look is very crude.

As it is only 2 files to modify, I will not make a branch in the cvs but just
comment out the broken parts.

But it will be better if someone can made it to work. That especially because
on the not so long run a gtk2 interface will be not only a wanted feature but a
must have feature (gentoo have already removed gtk1 from the distribution and
other will follow). So, you are welcome if you want to work on it, even if it
will take more as a few days.

So, i will wait a few day before to commit my changes (but not long). In fact,
I will wait only until I get enough familiarised with cvs (not so long) and
with sourceforge functionalities.

After, it is "just" to apply the security fixes from
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=alsaplayer-devel&m=114878812719626&w=2
and
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/alsaplayer/alsaplayer_0.99.76-0.3sarge1.diff.gz

I will do that too in a few days.
> 
> Thanks again and keep up the good work!
> 
Thanks, I will try!

Dominique

> Basil