Four OpenSolaris Songbirds
Four OpenSolaris Songbirds had a nice get together in the OpenSolaris developer Summit May 2008. Steve also invited us to the Songbird office(Ken, sorry that we didn't find you in C1 :( ). It's a wonderful place, full of openness, flexibility and creation.
The Songbird talk went smoothly and great. I love this kind of teamwork talk and people focus on different parts of the talk. Steve led the talk in an easy and interactive way. Albert, Ken and I talked about the porting efforts, the extensions and feathers.
As the release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, it's a better approach to make Songbird into IPS repository first.
Yeah! Can't wait to get this into IPS. :)
Posted by stevel on May 13, 2008 at 11:22 AM CST #
Hi,
Any idea _when_ we are getting Songbird into pkg.opensolaris.org ?
Thanks,
Edward.
Posted by EdwardOCallaghan on May 13, 2008 at 08:09 PM CST #
Not sure, I'll try generating an IPS package when we release Songbird 0.6 in a couple of weeks.
Posted by stevel on May 14, 2008 at 12:10 AM CST #
We need the mp3 gstreamer plugin first. It's not in OpenSolaris 2008.05 yet.
Posted by Haik on May 14, 2008 at 07:57 AM CST #
Haik, the reason we don't have mp3 gstreamer plugin in OpenSolaris partly is because of the license issue: GPLed application+LGPLed gstreamer+mp3 plugin. There are several plan to workaround this:
1. Users can grab the mp3 plugin from fluendo shop(recommended for now).
2. There might have plan to provide some encumbered ips pkg in some repository(From Stephen Hahn's talk in C1).
3. A script might be provided to enable the download and install of mp3 plugin automatically(discussed in desktop dash discuss at opensolaris dot org).
Posted by alfred on May 14, 2008 at 09:59 AM CST #