(No, it's not a suppository.)
Trolltech has released phonon backends for GStreamer, DirectShow, and QuickTime/CoreAudio, and will be maintaining them in the KDE codebase!
I guess it's time to start another build and see how Amarok sounds with nice CoreAudio output.
Figured it'd been a while since I did a general "status" post about what's been going on.
First and foremost, as I mentioned before, much of my spare time has gone into fixing up the Fink package database. It's now much easier on our web server, and uses a combination of PHP and a really spiffy Lucene-based full-text search engine called "Solr."
Also, I did some work on making Fink play nicer with the new Xquartz releases. It's still in testing, but in the meantime, their 2.1.1 release provides a workaround to allow Fink users on Leopard to run without issue.
I've also been wearing my OpenNMS.com hat recently, and am working on some spiffy customer-management tools for keeping track of our support work better. I'm a big fan of Ruby on Rails, and am mocking it up in that -- on top of JRuby, of course.
In the process, of getting my development system set up to do rails development, I updated all of the Fink packages for rails 2.0 and related stuff, as well as taking over rubygems from the previous maintainer. They're now all up-to-date, and I've been doing my rails development with a purely fink-based ruby/rails install, which is nice.
Plenty of other stuff got updated or added as well:
If you haven't noticed, the Fink package database is back up, and the server seems to be handling the load alright. I've fixed all of the bugs that I'm aware of, but if you notice anything strange in queries or other behavior you don't expect, please let me know.
Also, one thing I hadn't mentioned earlier is that in the process of reworking the PDB, I added a pretty major feature: RSS support. Any query you make through the browse interface has an equivalent query through the RSS interface. For example, if you have a query for unstable x86 packages in the "kde" section, excluding splitoffs, you can replace "browse.php" with "rss.php" and get an RSS feed with the results that match that query (in order of their last modification date in CVS).
Woot!
As of last night, the new PDB seems to be working alright with the (few) testers it's gotten from fink-devel yesterday evening, so I'd like to open this up to a wider audience.
Please, give the new test code a whirl and let me know if you see any issues.
