Hi,

The fact is that rplay doesn't seem to compile against newer gcc
versions. I never used rplay for anything, and I think I remember
some conversation (maybe in this same list or in workers) about
getting rid of it in fvwm, or maybe it was just a comment, I don't
really remember.

There's a bug open at bugs.gentoo.org[1] and they are thinking
about getting rid of rplay. Someone else pointed out the fact that
fvwm needs it.

My question is this: as far as I know, rplay is used *only* to play
system sounds via FvwmEvent, is that correct?

And second: that same functionality can be reproduced (also using
FvwmEvent) with virtually any command line player, like play, mpg123
or whatever. Is there any loss of functionality that I am not aware
of if we do so instead of using rplay?

If 1) rplay is only used for system sounds and 2) we can use virtually
any other player to do the same work in conjunction with FvwmEvent
then rplay is pointless and fixing it to work with newer gcc versions
is a waste of time. Please, kindly let me know what do you think about
this reasoning.

Thanks everyone.

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283207#c3
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Jesús Guerrero


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