[Gap-dev-discuss] MPDCon hosted on GAP?

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,

while on the train to the FOSDEM, I figured, MPDCon breaks on startup, with 
recent -base, -gui releases.
On the train back, I got that fixed, but found a couple of other annoying bugs. 
Therefore I had to change the
.gorm files a bit. Since they are binary, I cannot easily put patches to them 
into the OpenBSD ports tree.

Since its GPLv2, I thought, it can be hosted in GAP. Looking closer onto the 
code, I found libmpdclient.[h|m]
in the sources too, which are BSD licensed :(
Looking at the actual versions of libmpdclient, I found that it has a totally 
different API. So I spent the whole
week to get the MPDController.m from MPDCon updated to use the new API.

The most notably changes/enhancements I did are:
 * update to use the new API of libmpdclient, and link against external library 
instead of linking it into the application
 * old version made a complete reconnect on each attempt to connect the MPD 
server, now it reuses just a single connection
 * define and use some sane default values for the mpdHost, mpdPort and 
mpdTimeout (mpdTimeout is a new configuration variable added to the 
PreferencesController)
 * Change the default background color of the Player window from black to some 
grey (black was bad, since the fonts on it also were black ;)
 * fixed a couple of nits in the other .gorm interfaces.
 * bumped the Version to 1.2

For me, it now works much better than before already.

I tried to contact the original author, but not no avail yet. The last release, 
1.1.99, is about six years old already, so I guess
there is probably noone listening on those e-mail addresses. Don't know, I 
still have some hope, but not much anymore.

Having a working version downloadable, that would help me as a packager, and 
probably also other packages for other OS/Distros.

Are there any objections against giving it a new home on GAP?
I'd take care about MPDCon on GAP, importing it to CVS, creating/maintaining 
homepage and so on.
I also have some ideas about new features already ;)

cheers,
Sebastian

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