Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune -- MusicBrainz support

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Yavor,

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Hi GAPers,
>
> Riccardo told me that you have taken the romantic but bug-suffering
> Cynthiune under your custody and a great deal of bug fixing has been
> going on in the past weeks, in preparation for a new release under the
> GAP umbrella.  Finally some deserved love for this mistreated app.
> Excellent job!
Thanks. Everybody here worked quite hard.
> In case someone intends to dive into restoring MusicBrainz lookups --
> please hold on for a while as that would be a duplicate effort.  I
> managed to port the (buggy) Debian package to libmusicbrainz5 (the
> newest API), and I'm in the process of making it work under
> libmusicbrainz3 (the widespread API based on the XML service that is
> still working) as well.
>
> I'd like to refrain from sharing the patch right now as I'm still
> polishing it; I hope to be able to send it here within a day or two.
> In any case, as has been mentioned by various contributors, this
> should not be a blocker for a new release.
No, it is not a show-stopper. We have some "minor" bugs left in 
portability, error handling. I don't think we are not having regressions 
here, so it might be worth a release and in case, a second further 
improved release. We already have identified some problems (like rate 
handling, buffering problems) that need more work that is better done 
after a release.

I myself was quite busy with a total release event these past days, you 
might have noticed! And there are more pending... I hope I do not need 
to open a debian bug report for each one to get it updated :)

Nexto on the list are PDFKit, RSSKit+Grr and Cynthiune.

Riccardo