Audacious 3.6 has been released. This is another chance for interested people to join and help deciding how to proceed with the Fedora packages. I'm still looking for co-maintainers, too, especially some who have an opinion on how to package it.
I've been building pre-releases for it via Fedora Copr ( https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mschwendt/audacious-next/ ) but don't know whether anyone else has played with those yet (minus the MP3'n'similar plugins, of course, which are not available). Audacious 3.6 has changed the used programming language from C to C++. This also affects the Plugin API again, of course. It offers new GUI options for us to choose from: 1) The developers have introduced a Qt 5 based GUI that can coexist with the GTK+ GUI. It's called experimental, since it's not as feature-rich as the GTK+ GUI yet. It's a long-time goal to switch to Qt, however: http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/1269 2) The developers are unhappy with gtk3 and have returned to gtk2. Currently, they offer _two_ different source tarballs, as they still support gtk3, too, and some of the changes are not done conditionally in the source code. They write: | Audacious can still be built with GTK3 if desired, | but we recommend the GTK2 variant for any desktop environment | other than GNOME 3. Which _would_ open the possibility to build both, but I don't think that would be worth the trouble (implicit conflicts in libs and packaged files - the necessity to work around the conflicts somehow, since they are forbidden if following Fedora's guidelines - the necessity to add explicit inter-dependencies between packages, and most users would still only install "audacious" and not an optional "audacious-gtk2" or such). Enabling the Qt GUI would link Audacious core libraries with Qt by default in addition to GTK+ and GLib. That has the potential to annoy Qt haters, and Qt fans might be upset about the gtk3 dependency, too. Comments, anyone? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
