Re: building aaxine

I demand that Bryan Christ may or may not have top-posted...

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> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Bill Fink <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> If you really want aaxine, I think you're going to have to drop back
>> to xine-ui-0.99.4.  I found this on a google search for "aaxine remove":
>> "Changelog for xine-0.99.5-1.fc7.src.rpm
>> * Sat May 05 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 0.99.5-1
>> - Update to 0.99.5.
>> - Remove no longer needed patches.
>> - Remove aaxine and its man pages, no longer built and cacaxine is nicer."

You want aaxine? Build it yourself, or file a bug report (using the
appropriate bug tracker) about it being missing.

>> I have aaxine as part of xine-ui-0.99.4, have used it, and it works fine.

> Okay.  That's what I found too.  However, it seems to me that if aaxine is
> not longer an officially supported UI,

That's a bit generic. It's evidently no longer officially supported by one
distribution.

> but instead it is merged into cacaxine a few things should happen:

It's not merged at all. It's still built by default, and I don't see that
being changed.

> 1.  Rename cacaxine to something more generic like ttyxine (my 2 cents).

Won't happen.

> 2.  Put an announcement on the website saying that aaxine and cacaxine
> are now unitified (my 2 cents).

"Unitified"? :-)

Anyway, nothing to be done...

> 3.  Make the tool work correctly with aa is specified.  According to the
> current man pages for cacaxine, the following command line _should_ work
> but does not:  "cacaxine -V aa [filename]".  This seems like an actual bug
> and not just MHO.

cacaxine doesn't have a man page. (That in itself is a bug...)

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