"Evan Hisey" wrote: > Marcus- > While it is a nice idea, it is not really a feasible for the same > reasons a Windows port is not. Freevo use some very Linux idioms.
A windows port is much more complicated, MacOS X is a Posix system, just like Linux. So most of the windows problems do not apply here. > It might be possible to get a fink-ified version of freevo running > on a Mac, but do not believe that a full port would really be worth > the effort. Just a few of the major projects that would need native > Mac versions would be Mplayer, Xine, gstreamer ( for 2.0), xmltv, > tvtime plus a fewother libraries that would need to be tweaked for > Mac idioms. IIRC mplayer already works on MacOS X. The hard part would be to add Mac specific things like the quicktime player to the system. Since most of the code is Python it should work with only a few tweaks. > On the other hand, it mught be very possible to use kaa lib to make a > native Mac work alike of freevo. I am not sure how much os specific > stuff is in kaa ir how well native Mac apps handle being used as > clients/backends. Kaa is the big problem here, Freevo is kind of small now with much of the logic in kaa. I guess the big work items are: o Evas support to make use of kaa.candy o Quicktime support in kaa.player o MacOS specific monitoring in kaa.beacon Dischi -- Standards are industry's way of codifying obsolescence.
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