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The Tuesday 2007-01-30 at 16:10 -0500, Charles philip Chan wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > which is still at version 0.2, alpha state
> > (<http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmms2/>). It is not a valid
> > replacement yet.
> 
> I didn't say it was a valid replacement yet. I am just stating the fact
> that development have not stopped.

It has stopped for xmms. It has started for xmms2.

> > It is not the only fork: there is also BMP, BMPx and Audacious,
> > according to the wikipedia;
> 
> xmms2 is not a fork, but a redesign by the original team (like what Arpi
> is doing for mplayer with mplayer2). I know this because I used to
> follow the XMMS devel list.

A question of names. Still, plain xmms is dead for practical purposes.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmms>:
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| Forks
...
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| # The XMMS2 project, a redesign of XMMS began by one of its original 
| authors - Peter Alm - started around the end of 2002.



So... xmms stopped on 2002, xmms2 started then, but they are still at the 
alpha stage.

xmms is dead, it's child ungrown.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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