I have some sympathy with your position having tried to build squeezecenter for an ARM NAS box and given up after wasting several hours of my time. As luck would have it, after giving up I found a package built by someone else that only took a few minutes to install.
> Why is it still so hard to install Squeezecenter? Because it is written in a scripting language and has a large number of dependencies. However, if it was small tight C code would you have written those couple of plugins? Given Logitech's objectives it does not seem an inappropriate choice. > The SlimDevices hardware is top-notch - it really is. But it'll never be > mainstream if the SqueezeCenter installation doesn't improve. I am not sure what you mean by mainstream. It is a Logitech product and is consequently on sale in countless places all around the world. > But other folk might not be so persistent and they will go elsewhere. And > they'll tell their friends. And that worries me. As SuperQ pointed out, it is very easy to install on all the main platforms including PPC on OSX. If you and I want to run it on unsupported OS/hardware then we must be prepared to pay the price. I will add that I was surprised at what I found when I tried to install it on a NAS box. Running a music server on such devices is becoming a common thing to want to do as reflected elsewhere on this site. I would imagine that pressure is growing to get rid of dependencies like MySQL, rewrite the core in C and keep Perl for the extensions. This would improve things in a technical sense for this type of platform but I have no familiarity with how the community works and it may do more harm than good on the main platforms where such a change is clearly not necessary. -- honestguv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ honestguv's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13734 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55124 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
