On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:08:09 +0100 Daniel Isenmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > there were a discussion on the arch-general list about why not adding > moonlight to the repo > (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-January/003326.html). > > Now I want to discuss this topic further from a developer point of > view. > > I want your opinion about that topic, should we add moonlight to the > extra repo? And please don't give answers like: "What do we want with > this Micr**** shit?". We have closed source software like flashplayer > in our repos, so why not add an open source product which do nearly > the same (not seen as compatible to flash, instead nearly same > technology, etc.). > > I would maintain it, because it belongs to mono (more or less). > > > Some information about moonlight: > --------------------------------- > The project page is here: http://mono-project.com/Moonlight > > The license shouldn't be a problem, it's distributed under open source > licenses. More information on the project page or here: > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMonoGroup/Moonlight (which are the > information of the debian mono group). > > If you want try moonlight, feel free to build it on your own from my > submitted PKGBUILD in the AUR > (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23384). > > If you need some webpages to test moonlight: > http://go-mono.com/moonlight/MoonlightStatus.aspx > > > Cheers, > Daniel Small update on the further processing. At the moment the plugin get 11 votes in the AUR. I plan to let it stay in AUR unless it get a little popular and maybe more votes. So, if the number of webpages which uses silverlight/moonlight increase a lot, I will push it to the extra repo. Until then it will stay in AUR. Cheers, Daniel
