Bug 100773 – xmms-openspc-0.0.3.ebuild (New Package)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Walther 2005-07-29 19:15:21 UTC]

OpenSPC is a XMMS plugin that enables playing of spc files (SNES Music Format).
Currently there IS an xmms plugin for playing spc files known as
media-plugins/xmms-spc, but this plugin is the OLDEST and most outdated from the
three that exist (OpenSPC, xmms-spc and SexySPC). Since xmms-spc is so old it
doesn't even compiles cleanly anymore, I would suggest a working alternative be
introduced (and media-sound/xmms-spc should probably even be dropped because it
IS such an inferior plugin in contrast to the other two).

I have to note that all three plugins are orphan projects right now, but OpenSPC
still works relatively well (it just needs a small patch to fix a few things
which I can attach as well).

This ebuild depends on xmms and nasm (for compilation).

This is my first ebuild, and I followed as many guides as I could find around as
well as basing myself on other ebuilds, I even made a thread at the forums about
it (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353741.html), unfortunately the demand
for this kind of plugin is so low that noone has given feedback, and after two
weeks of inactivity, well.. I just wanted to submit this before I forgot.

[Comment 1 Walther 2005-07-29 19:18:13 UTC]

Created attachment 64696 [details]
xmms-openspc ebuild with patch and digest files included.

This is the ebuild prepackaged into a tar.bz2, after extracted it can placed in
the portage overlay and emerged afterwards.
The ebuild's header has to be changed, but other than that it could go in as it
is.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-07-30 01:21:58 UTC]

No tarballs please, just plaintext ebuild and patch. Also, no digests etc.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap2

[Comment 3 Walther 2005-07-30 08:38:25 UTC]

Created attachment 64735 [details]
ebuild file for xmms-openspc-0.0.3

[Comment 4 Walther 2005-07-30 08:39:06 UTC]

Created attachment 64736 [details, diff]
patch needed to make xmms-openspc compile correctly.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-08-20 07:03:45 UTC]

*** Bug 103139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Andreas Eriksson 2005-08-20 07:29:51 UTC]

My bug was marked duplicate, but I think the soulution using a cvs snapshot with
0.0.4 (hasn't been developed since 2003, and I've used it for a year, its
stable) is better since it has the library and the xmms plugin separate. It also
won't need a patch to compile correctly. Should I re-post the ebuild I posted in
the bug  that was marked duplicate here?

[Comment 7 Walther 2005-08-20 10:40:16 UTC]

I second Andreas' comment, I had no idea openspc was ever developed beyond the
release available at Xmms. Plus the ebuild noted here does not has the lib
separation the cvs snapshot has. So I do recommend the "duplicate ebuild"
becoming the official one rather than this, and instead marking this one as the
duplicate (as odd as that sounds).

[Comment 8 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-05-26 12:53:25 UTC]

XMMS is now obsolete, although still in Portage and somewhat supported, we're not accepting any more related packages.

[Comment 9 Andreas Eriksson 2006-05-27 00:49:27 UTC]

So how are we supposed to play this file format if xmms is becoming obselete? Its the only player that has a plugin with reasonable good audio quality for it.