Hi James,

Thanks for the comments.

James C. McPherson wrote:
> Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote:
> ...
>> 4. Technical Description:
>>     4.1. Details:
>>         Songbird is a complete desktop media player or "jukebox" with a
>>         uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network 
>> services.
>>         It runs on Mozilla's XULRunner platform and utilizes 
>> GStreamer media
>>         framework for media playback.
> ...
>>                                Imported  Interface
>>         
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         Interface          Classification   ARC case           Comment
>>         
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         GNOME Platform     Committed        LSARC/2008/207     GTK+ 
>> library
>>         Libraries                           GNOME 2.22
>>         SQLite             Uncommitted      PSARC/2008/120     SQLite 
>> library
>>         NSS/NSPR           Committed        WSARC/2007/548     
>> NSS/NSPR libraries
>>         FreeType           Volatile         LSARC/2007/662     
>> freetype library
>>
>>         The versions of NSS/NSPR in Nevada are lower than required. 
>> We will
>>         deliver private ones for now, and remove the private ones after
>>         those libraries get upgraded in Nevada.
>
> Hi Irene,
> I'm very pleased to see that Songbird is now on the radar
> for inclusion. I have some questions for you:
>
> Which version of Songbird will the project team integrate
> initially (and how often will it be updated?).
Currently the latest community release is 0.6.1, a micro update to the 
0.6 release(Jun. 13th) with several bug fixes from 0.6: 
http://www.songbirdnest.com/release-notes/0.6.1. From the Songbird 
Roadmap(http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Roadmap), there will be a minor 
updates every two months, until the official 1.0 release next year.
> There are always comments on Songbird fora about obtaining
> new media plugins. What will the project team do to make
> this process easy to follow? Will there be, for instance,
> an IPS package of plugins and config which a user can download
> and install in a painless fashion?
Songbird is integrated with GStreamer framework and all the GStreamer 
plugins apply to Songbird, for example, the mp3 gstreamer plugin from 
Fluendo. I think we, the desktop team and the IPS team, will work out a 
solution to easy the user experience to get the plugins by IPS with 
necessary agreements. And some plugins(with re-distribution issue) will 
be put into an encumbered repository.
> I'm less than impressed that we have yet another case that
> plans to deliver its own copy of nss/nspr.
 From the configure.in, the NSS version needs to be >= 3.12.0

Best Regards,
-Alfred
>
> James C. McPherson
> -- 
> Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
> Sun Microsystems
> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp    http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog


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