[arch-general] Banshee needs an update

[gan lu]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Alec Hussey <alec.hussey at madsoft.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 08:59 +0200, JJDaNiMoTh wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:00:26 +0200
> > Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Justin Gx wrote:
> > > > Alec Hussey wrote:
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >> I was glad when you guys (or Jan de Groot, whichever) decided to
> push
> > > >> the banshee alpha out to extra. However, it is missing many pretty
> > > >> essential features and it now far behind the releases put out by
> the
> > > >> banshee developers. I think that either we need to keep up or
> provide
> > > >> two seperate versions of the package until a final release of 1.0
> is
> > > >> made.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for writing this - I was going to write something along the
> same
> > > > lines. the Banshee in the repos is much too basic.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Where is your PKGBUILD up-to-date and with essential features, so that
> > > people interested would know what you are talking about?
> > >
> >
> > This is a developer's work.
> >
> > If Jan requests his help, Justin or Alec can email him directly to his
> e-mail.
> > And yours isn't the answer much appropriate, the best way would was
> > 'use the out-of-date checkbox and not this mailing-list'
> >
> > /* Leave from your brain this 'patches welcome' mind. They only want
> >  * to help.                                                   */
> >
> But last I checked, the repository browser on archlinux.org doesnt
> support that and the banshee pacakges in the AUR are SVN releases done
> by other users.
>
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=banshee
>
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=banshee&SeB=nd&PP=25&do_Search=Go
>
>        On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:19 +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
>        > Current banshee version is 0.98.1 and latest is 0.98.3. Even
>        though i
>        > dont know i doubt the features added are that essential to
>        cause this
>        > fuzz.
>
>        Oh, they are. Banshee had a complete rewrite and the 0.98.1
>        version is
>        really really basic.
>
>        0.98.3 adds new stuff like shuffling, video support etc.
>
>        I think I would call that major features.
>
> On top of that none of the plugins from before had been ported yet in
> 0.98.1 including Podcasts, DAAP, and MTP/iPod support.


MTP and podcast support - according their website - is not fully implemented
in 0.98.3 neither.
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