[PATCH] Re: Audacious 2.2 heads-up

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:55:31 +0100, Hans wrote:

> I really like audacious-2.2 maybe we should also offer it as a
> Fedora 12 update ? ( It seems more stable then 2.1 to me)

Sounds like a plan. With the -freeworld plugin package upgrades being
available (and they will also need testing!), eventually there could be a
last push of 2.1 updates in Fedora 12 and a transition to 2.2 via a
test-update. Perhaps in January or so, but:

* Does the alsa-gapless output driver work for you? Last time I looked
(and I did participate in testing the alpha/beta releases of 2.2, too,
where it still worked), it failed due to:

  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/530521

That one will need a fix -- or a work-around in audacious-plugins.

* I was hoping more for a 2.3 release or so, as 2.1/2.2 give the taste of
a pair of alpha/beta releases in disguise. ;)

There have been further rewrites in upstream source repo after 2.2, also
affecting the -freeworld plugins. Compared with 2.1, the 2.2 source differs
so much in several places that upstream cannot tell whether some problems
are fixed. It seems to me that 2.2 will meet the same fate. Even some of the
smaller daily diffs are scary. In current devel tree they just renamed the
ALSA driver once more, from "alsa-gapless" to "alsa", breaking user's
preferences again.