Matthew Johnson wrote:
Description: XBox Media Center Linux Port
A media center originally written for the XBox and then ported to linux.
I intend to upload this to experimental to start with. The linux port of it is
just that. It's also designed for installation to a single directory, not
installation on a unix system. I'll need to hack round that first. The version
number is a CVS snapshot. I need to improve the long description before
uploading.
First of all, you surely must mean SVN and you should use a version
number like 0.0~svn20080302, i.e. YYYYMMDD or else I'd expect an epoch
pretty soon :)
I've had a look at this and even made it to successfully work on my
machine. I reported some issues back to upstream (e.g. incompatibility
with libmms 0.4) and told them that I was interested on bringing this to
Debian. I also mentioned the FHS issue which is an obvious blocker for
Debian inclusion.
I've had only negative comments; they apparently don't care about
inclusion in Debian or Ubuntu (which is their platform of preference)
and they just want to be able to release a liveCD that works.
The FHS proposal was thought to be "too much trouble for little gain"
and potentially harming the MacOSX port which is also under development.
I had a look at the code and it's a mess, because of the XDK/Windows
heritage, e.g. there are conversions between Windows paths (H:\) and
Linux ones (/opt/xbmc).
...and that's why I never filed an ITP and still don't regret that choice.
All in all, good luck with that ;-)
You should expect some heavy upstream patching and a potentially
unfriendly upstream.
But I'd really like to see this packaged.
Thanks,
Faidon
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