On Sunday 15 February 2009 07:08:46 am Daniel Isenmann wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:34:14 +0100
Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann@gmx.de> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:08:09 +0100
Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
there were a discussion on the arch-general list about why not adding moonlight to the repo (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009- January/003326.ht ml).
Now I want to discuss this topic further from a developer point of view.
I want your opinion about that topic, should we add moonlight to the extra repo? And please don't give answers like: "What do we want with this Micr**** shit?". We have closed source software like flashplayer in our repos, so why not add an open source product which do nearly the same (not seen as compatible to flash, instead nearly same technology, etc.).
I would maintain it, because it belongs to mono (more or less).
Some information about moonlight: --------------------------------- The project page is here: http://mono-project.com/Moonlight
The license shouldn't be a problem, it's distributed under open source licenses. More information on the project page or here: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMonoGroup/Moonlight (which are the information of the debian mono group).
If you want try moonlight, feel free to build it on your own from my submitted PKGBUILD in the AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23384).
If you need some webpages to test moonlight: http://go-mono.com/moonlight/MoonlightStatus.aspx
Cheers, Daniel
Small update on the further processing. At the moment the plugin get 11 votes in the AUR. I plan to let it stay in AUR unless it get a little popular and maybe more votes. So, if the number of webpages which uses silverlight/moonlight increase a lot, I will push it to the extra repo. Until then it will stay in AUR.
Cheers, Daniel
Next update to moonlight in ArchLinux: It will be moved to [community]. It has reached at the moment 31 votes and Timm Preetz (aka gummibaerchen) is taking care of it in the community repo. So, you will be able to do a "pacman -S moonlight" to install it, if you need it.
Cheers, Daniel Since, I commented about this, I am now more eager to test this out, since it has hit 1.0 versions. So thanks for working on this Daniel.