Jamboree is a new iTunes-like music player for GNOME, that actually really works (in opposite to some other hyped music boxes). I'd like to see it in Gentoo, therefore I've create an initial .ebuild. Unfortunatly this young project needs a tiny hackish patch to build on Gentoo, but it's also attached.
Created attachment 18509 [details] the portage-script
Created attachment 18510 [details] the hackish patch
Created attachment 18511 [details] the hackish patch (uncompressed)
The IUSE var should be empty, the gst deps incorrect given the new setup. The ebuild should be _clean_ (not all sorts of commented out stuff in) and the patch can be solved a simpler way. I have a local ebuild which does all this. But i'm not too keen to put this in as it is, i'd like to see it mature a little first.
> But i'm not too keen to put this in as it is, i'd like to see > it mature a little first. Well, but don't we have the ~x86 for exactly that purpose? Potentially unstable software? Btw, even if the project still is quite incomplete: It __is running stable__ on my box. __Much more stable than__ the much hyped __rhythmbox__, which usally crashes within few moments on my box. Well, and I really like to have a iTunes-like music player on my box. I could also imagine, that putting jamboree into the portage tree could promote that tiny project a little bit. Maybe having it in portage would even cause some dudes to submit patches to that project, helping to "mature" it more quickly. See: One of the reasons I'm running Gentoo, is getting fresh new hot software on my box painlessly. Would be quite disapointing, if I would have to learn, that Gentoo doesn't aim to give me the freshest hot stuff (besides a rocking stable base-system). Random ideas I had while typing this, since I understand, that you care about too fresh software ruining Gentoo's reputation: What's about some new keywords expressing "imature unstable fresh new hot experimental stuff, turning your computer into a bomb"? Or what's about a special software category (besides "users") for this kind of software? Or what's about creating a special place on the gentoo.org website for collecting this kind of portage scripts (it's a pain to fish for them in bugzilla).
I just want to point out a few things. ~x86 doesnt mean unstable. It's for packages masked for testing, which isn't the same thing as unstable. And WORKSFORME is not a solution for everybody unfortunately. Let's say that jamboree crashes a lot for me, hypothetically, but rhythmbox crashes a lot for you. This doesnt make them both unstable software, but neither does it say that one is more stable than the other with a single case like that. Lastly, portage isnt about promotion, I'm sorry.
What Mike said. Anyway, when i get a chance i'll take a look and commit something if it pans out. THanks for the submission.
Oops, sorray about that. This is assigned to gnome not sound. Forget i said that.
> Lastly, portage isnt about promotion, I'm sorry. Just want to point out, that I'm not associated with that project in any way - expect that I'm a happy user (just in the case you tought I'm abusing portage for promotion).
foser, could you attach your ebuild for jamboree here please?
Since foser wouldn't post his ebuild till now I went ahead tried to do it better. Based on fosers comments for the original ebuild. It uses the patch (uncompressed) from the original ebuild and borrowed some parts from the rhythmbox ebuild. Just in case anyone wants to try out Jamboree in conjunction with his prefered package management system - portage. I found Jamboree to be working somewhat acceptable. It builds a database lighting fast! The only problem I found is that playback skips/pauses when I click around in the UI. Oh and the Recently Played Entry doesn't work, don't use it. BTW I fail to see how the new gst-plugins setup is good. I'm gonna file a bug about it for discussion.
Created attachment 18898 [details] jamboree-0.3.ebuild
Created attachment 18899 [details] jamboree-0.3-vorbis.patch
no significant progress in development, we wont add it in this state
*** Bug 68752 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There was a new release made, but don't know if anybody from gnome/sound team is intrested in adding/maintaining this. I checked the lists and they were pretty much empty.
