On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:34:14 +0100 Daniel Isenmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Next update to moonlight in ArchLinux: It will be moved to [community]. It has reached at the moment 31 votes and Timm Preetz (aka gummibaerchen) is taking care of it in the community repo. So, you will be able to do a "pacman -S moonlight" to install it, if you need it. Cheers, Daniel
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