Monday, February 5. 2007
OS X first OS to see Amarok 2.0 crash - natively
Today, we managed to link the freshly ported Amarok 2.0 for the first time. Not on Linux, but on native OS X. It didn't even crash right away. A first start made it complain about a missing audio engine and run kbuildsycoca. Only a second run made it crash for real. This means that the period where Amarok successfully didn't compile using cmake is over and is now followed by a period where it sucessfully doesn't run.
That's what we have been waiting for for a couple of days now. Everybody said that working on a thing that doesn't even compile is no fun. But still everybody wanted to get his fair share of this no-fun, and we saw the number of commits sky-rocket, which means that the no-fun period is almost over after a very short time. But hopefully that does not mean that we loose the fresh energy which was brought to us by the change to KDE 4.
And if you cannot believe that it doesn't run:
That's what we have been waiting for for a couple of days now. Everybody said that working on a thing that doesn't even compile is no fun. But still everybody wanted to get his fair share of this no-fun, and we saw the number of commits sky-rocket, which means that the no-fun period is almost over after a very short time. But hopefully that does not mean that we loose the fresh energy which was brought to us by the change to KDE 4.
And if you cannot believe that it doesn't run:
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iTunes, your days are numbered.
Great work! Soon my Mac will know the joy that my Linux box does.
Great work! Soon my Mac will know the joy that my Linux box does.
Great news! Good to see that you guys are making visible progress. I'm really eager to be able to use the best music player on earth on whatever OS I feel like 
I like changing operating systems, but since I've found Amarok, this is the one thing I don't want to change
I like changing operating systems, but since I've found Amarok, this is the one thing I don't want to change
BTW: If you keep making progress at that pace, Amarok 2.0 will be ready way before KDE 4.0. I wonder if you have any plans about integrating it into KDE 3.5.x
No, sorry. There are a few features that were half-implemented that may be completed in the 1.4x series but nothing major. If we're ready before KDE4 is, we'll use the time for polishing, new features, bug fixing, and more.
Also, don't underestimate the amount of work we have in front of us...just because Amarok looks and seems functional doesn't mean it's ready. Getting it working to the level it was at with 1.4.5 is just the starting point...we have major, serious refactoring and revamping that is planned. Hopefully you'll like it all
Also, don't underestimate the amount of work we have in front of us...just because Amarok looks and seems functional doesn't mean it's ready. Getting it working to the level it was at with 1.4.5 is just the starting point...we have major, serious refactoring and revamping that is planned. Hopefully you'll like it all
I don't think port amarok to OS X (or Windows) is a nice idea, maybe you should make some ''sampler'' version to show people what they may have if they work on a OpenSource environment.
I perfectly agree with you... Expecially I won't like to see amarok on windows... An example: I convinced a japanese family to install linux basically thanks to amarok... If you make it available on windows...
I agree as well. Having amarok on windows & osx is yet another blow to the opensource community. It was nice to have a great audio player app exclusively on an opensource environment. Microsoft & Apple win again.
Amarok is not being ported to mac & win, it's being ported to Qt4 which are platform independent.
Amarok is still going to be exclusively on an opensource environment. Complain to Trolltech if you don't like having opensource on Windows and Mac.
I really fail to see why having Amarok run natively on all platforms is a bad thing. It's still open-source and always will be, and the more people use it, regardless of what platform, the more that open-source gets raised in the public awareness. Some people may switch to Linux for Amarok, but very few in the grand scheme of things. Most will stay on the platform they know and deal with Winamp or iTunes. But imagine if people get to really love running Amarok, Konversation, Kopete, KOffice, etc. on any platform...it'll invite new contributors that otherwise would never have gotten involved.
Besides, I'd like to think there will be a day when many people think "damn, all the best apps I"m using are free and open-source, and I can use them even if I switch to (a Mac, a PC, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD)..." It doesn't matter if they then switch to Linux or FreeBSD or the like, but the more people realize what open source is doing for them, such as allowing them to utilize the same apps and programs they love wherever they want it, the better it is for open-source in the long run.
If you are worried about people not switching to Linux anymore because Amarok is on Windows, how about a scenario like "wow, Amarok rocks and there is lots of software that also rocks and is free on Linux...and boy have these viruses and spyware got me down..."
I really fail to see why having Amarok run natively on all platforms is a bad thing. It's still open-source and always will be, and the more people use it, regardless of what platform, the more that open-source gets raised in the public awareness. Some people may switch to Linux for Amarok, but very few in the grand scheme of things. Most will stay on the platform they know and deal with Winamp or iTunes. But imagine if people get to really love running Amarok, Konversation, Kopete, KOffice, etc. on any platform...it'll invite new contributors that otherwise would never have gotten involved.
Besides, I'd like to think there will be a day when many people think "damn, all the best apps I"m using are free and open-source, and I can use them even if I switch to (a Mac, a PC, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD)..." It doesn't matter if they then switch to Linux or FreeBSD or the like, but the more people realize what open source is doing for them, such as allowing them to utilize the same apps and programs they love wherever they want it, the better it is for open-source in the long run.
If you are worried about people not switching to Linux anymore because Amarok is on Windows, how about a scenario like "wow, Amarok rocks and there is lots of software that also rocks and is free on Linux...and boy have these viruses and spyware got me down..."
I love Amarok! I'm a Apple user and I don't like iTunes very much.
I'm a Archlinux user too so I'm so happy to view this news!
GO AMAROK GOOOOO!
I'm a Archlinux user too so I'm so happy to view this news!
GO AMAROK GOOOOO!
Well done! iTunes pretty much sucks, I'd rather run amarok, good luck getting it working on OS X.
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