I'm probably not the first to notice that RealPlayer 8 is now available for Linux. So I have released TRPlayer 2.0b2, which works with RealPlayer 8 and fixes a bug from 2.0b1. Is RealPlayer 7 still available from the RealNetworks Web site? If not, then users might get TRPlayer 1.1.5, since it's the current stable version, and find that they can't get a version of RealPlayer that works with it. Should such users be forced to use a "beta" release of TRPlayer, or should I release a new "stable" version that supports RealPlayer 8? I don't want to do a final release of TRPlayer 2.0 now because I haven't developed it enough since version 1.1.5 to call it 2.0. A version number of 1.2 would be more appropriate, but the step backward in version numbering might be confusing. I'm sorry if I've done a bad job with my version numbers; I'm still learning how to manage a software project. TRPlayer now has its own FTP directory, "/pub/linux/goodies/trplayer". The files for TRPlayer 1.1.5 that were in "/pub/linux/goodies" are now symbolic links to the appropriate files in the trplayer directory. I will remove these symbolic links when I release the next stable version of TRPlayer. Starting with TRPlayer 2.0b2, the file naming scheme for the binary distribution archive has changed. For example, we now have "trplayer-2.0b2.i386-linux-gnu.tar.gz", to indicate that this is a binary distribution of TRPlayer 2.0b2 for GNU/Linux systems running under the i386 architecture. This will allow for ports of TRPlayer to other Unix systems, such as Solaris and FreeBSD, and other processor types, such as the DEC Alpha. -- Matt Campbell Web site: http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/ ICQ #: 33005941
