Re: [Zinf-support] Solaris port bugged - several compile problems

> 
> Problem #3 - here I'm stuck, quoting the entire blurb
> I../../../../mdb -I/opt/csw/include -Wall -O -MT soundcardpmo.lo -MD -MP

Someone (a long time ago) substituted the now standard int32_t for
all occurances of int32, etc... It seems that the solaris directory
was skipped.   Try a global replace with the proper changes
for types taken from <stdint.h>

> This looks like either my environment is broken or something else.
> At first glance it looks like a few headers that would be needed aren't
> included.  ZinfVolumize I found in ./io/include/zinfvolume.h which
> isn't included - or did I miss something here?
> 
> Tatjana
> 
> PS:
> ./configure --disable-nls		\
>     --prefix=/opt/csw			\
>     --with-vorbis=/opt/csw		\
>     --with-musicbrainz-prefix=/opt/csw	\
>     --with-gdbm-prefix=/opt/csw		\
>     --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/csw		\
>     --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/csw	\
>     --with-id3lib-prefix=/opt/csw	\
>     --with-ncurses-prefix=/opt/csw	\
>     --with-libintl-prefix=/opt/csw	\
>     --with-esd-prefix=/opt/csw 		\
>     --disable-gtktest    ;# configure complained about conflicting versions

tools for writing xml or docbook

Re: tools for writing xml or docbook

Erik Jones writes:

> My question is, what tools do you folks recommend for writing in docbook 
> format. (it is the format I am presently looking into) 

emacs works for me.

Depending on what I'm running at the moment, sometimes I find that xemacs's 
SGML mode is better than emacs'; sometimes it's the other way around.

> I have been reading that working 'by hand' is generally not recommended 
> and I am 'googling' around, but I figured some advice couldn't hurt. 

I don't know where you read that, emacs always worked for me.  But your 
message raised some interest, and brief googling found this:

http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/

Sounds like a worthwhile investigation: write docbook stuff in OpenOffice…

An outline of what I presently think I am going to do

What follows is my general  thoughts on what to
include right now. Any thoughts would be appreciated
********
Zinf User Docs Outline
 
1.	Statement of purpose
2.	Saying of thanks etc
3.	Intro and Overview Zinf
4.	Compiling Zinf

·      In Windows
·      In Linux
·      Other Systems
5.	Installation requirements
6.	General Installation Overview
*	Installation on Windows
*	Installation on Linux
*	Other Systems

4.	General Usage Discussion 
*	Creating a play list
*	Various commonly used settings

3.	Using skins
4.	FAQ (some taken from the users newsgroup?)

·      Installation problems
·      Compilation problems
10.	Contact Info and News groups

		
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Volunteer

Hello everyone! 

I am not sure if this sounds awkward but I have just started using Zinf
and read that help is wanted! 

Well I wouldn't mind at all helping out with whatever and being a part
of this glorious project. It seems to be rocking and has a bright
future. Let me know if I should send a resume etc. so that you can
"judge" my potential. ;)

rk

Info about me:

I am a first semester PhD student and just finished my masters. I lied
actually - I am a PhD student who has yet to start since I am taking
time off - rather took time off and was traveling in Europe. I did my
Masters thesis in Load Balancing Parallel Explicit State Model Checkers
- basically using varied forms of previously used algorithms etc. in the
supercomputing field and applying those to distributed model checking. 

I am comfortable working with CVS, doxygen, c/c++, java, perl etc.

Thanks and Adios!

rk 

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Re: Volunteer

Hi,   

  Glad that you want to help.   First off, the most current development
is being done with arch  (read more about it here: 
          http://wiki.gnuarch.org/  )

Then register some archives:  

david <at> thepriorities.com--2004
    http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf/arch2004

a.rottmann <at> gmx.at--2004-main
    http://people.debian.org/~rotty/arch/a.rottmann <at> gmx.at/2004-main

kris <at> cs.ucsb.edu--2004-public
    http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kris/archive-pub

I think david's zinf-browsermm is the most up to date.

tla get david <at> thepriorities.com--2004/zinf--browsermm zinf-browsermm

You can also create your own branch off of my cvs archive for easy
merging.

[Check about creating a local archive in the guide above] then 
tla tag kris <at> cs.ucsb.edu--2004-public/zinf--cvstrunk--1 zinf-mybranch 

You will need some tools to compile from source:
automake 1.7
autoconf 2.13

*All* development libraries (even though you 
may not want to compile these features autoconf
depends on having them available).

gtk1.2-dev and gtk2.4-dev
freetype
glade
pango
ogg
xosd 
ncurses
musicbrainz
orbit
arts
esd
alsa

After getting the dependencies,
run in the top level source 

autogen.sh
mkdir =build
cd =build
../configure --enable-experimental 
make

And probably some others that I have forgotten :)

If you have troubles write to the list and we'll help out.
As a good first task you might want to document your
journey as a guide to others...

Thanks,
kris

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:23 +0100, Rahul Kumar wrote:
> Hello everyone! 
> 
> I am not sure if this sounds awkward but I have just started using Zinf
> and read that help is wanted! 
> 
> Well I wouldn't mind at all helping out with whatever and being a part
> of this glorious project. It seems to be rocking and has a bright
> future. Let me know if I should send a resume etc. so that you can
> "judge" my potential. ;)
> 
> rk
> 
> 
> Info about me:
> 
> I am a first semester PhD student and just finished my masters. I lied
> actually - I am a PhD student who has yet to start since I am taking
> time off - rather took time off and was traveling in Europe. I did my
> Masters thesis in Load Balancing Parallel Explicit State Model Checkers
> - basically using varied forms of previously used algorithms etc. in the
> supercomputing field and applying those to distributed model checking. 
> 
> I am comfortable working with CVS, doxygen, c/c++, java, perl etc.
> 
> Thanks and Adios!
> 
> rk 
> 
> 
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Re: Volunteer

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:59:28 -0800, Kristian Kvilekval <kris <at> cs.ucsb.edu>  
wrote:
...
>
> *All* development libraries (even though you
> may not want to compile these features autoconf
> depends on having them available).
>
> gtk1.2-dev and gtk2.4-dev

Anyone know what part of zinf still requires gtk1.2? I thought it'd all  
been ported to gtk2?

> freetype
> glade
> pango
> ogg
> xosd
> ncurses
> musicbrainz
> orbit
> arts
> esd
> alsa
>
> After getting the dependencies,
> run in the top level source
>
> autogen.sh
> mkdir =build
> cd =build
> ../configure --enable-experimental
> make
>
>
> And probably some others that I have forgotten :)
...

You'll probably want these as well

gtkmm2.4
boost

You only need them for the new stuff (musicdb/musicbrowsermm), so if don't  
add --enable-experimental it should compile fine without them. If you do  
compile the experimental stuff you'll also want to change  
~/.zinf/preferences so that the line
MusicBrowserUI: musicbrowser.ui
reads
MusicBrowserUI: musicbrowsermm.ui
in order to try it out.

Always great to have some extra help.

Cheers,
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Zinf Todo List / MusicBrowserMM

Hi,

As I've found myself with some time to actually work on Zinf recently I  
thought it might be an idea to draw up a list of what people think needs  
doing, what/when the next release should be, future ideas, etc. Hopefully  
this may trigger some sort of useful work being done (it always pays to be  
optimistic ... really).

So, i reckon the following stuff needs doing before the next release
* MusicBrowserMM
   - Custom layout dialog
   - Edit Info dialog
   - Work out what default layout should be, and other layouts to include  
in view menu
   - Icons for the stop, play/pause, previous, and next playback controls
   - Lots of testing and bug squashing
   - Any features that have been lost in the rewrite
* MusicDB
   - Support for all file formats (e.g. can only read the length of vorbis  
files at the moment)
   - Lots of testing and bug squashing
   - Stop the Playlist object looking all tracks up in the old database
   - Implementation of file path DB

This is all I can think of at the moment, so there will be plenty I've  
forgotten.

What other stuff do people think needs doing?
Also, is anyone in a position to actually work on any of this?

On a side note, BrowserMM has come a long way since I last updated the  
list (which was a veeery long time ago). For my needs it is now roughly  
functionally complete. Some of the highlights include,

* Addition of playback toolbars to browser
* New dialogs (e.g. Missing File, Search For Music, etc.)
* now uses gtkmm2.4 (not compatable with gtkmm2.2/2.0)
* uses new GTK+ UIManager for menubar/toolbar, so can specify custom  
toolbar/menubar with XML (XML currently hard coded in  
ui/musicbrowsermm/src/items/actionbars.cpp though, this needs putting in a  
preference)
* Playlist now has a custom GtkTreeModel which has a better performace as  
well as
   - drag & drop between filesystem and playlist, and between playlists  
(not from library to playlist though)
   - supports columns of arbitrary metadata
* saner source file organisation
* bug fixes

A changelog (generated from arch log messages) is here:  
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/change-log

A gratuitous screen shot is here:  
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/updated_screenshot.png

Source code can be downloaded from my zinf--browsermm branch:  
http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf/arch2004/

Alternatively you can download a full source tree here:  
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf--browsermm--0.5--patch-43.tar.gz

At some point I'd like to commit this lot to CVS, though last time I tried  
that I broke kristian's zinf--cvstrunk branch, so it may be a while before  
I actually do this.

Cheers,
David
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Re: Zinf Todo List / MusicBrowserMM

Awesome news!

looks pretty nice.. I will try and compile it this evening.    

On the MDB side, I think there needs to be a lot more
completeness in terms of both mp3 and vorbis tags,
plus better musicbrainz integration.  As I remember
we also had some problems with naming of cd tracks.
Has this been resolved?

I think the CVS problem last time was that you had branched
off my zinf--mdb.   I see that you now branched off
zinf--cvstrunk so we should not see the duplication.
My feeling would be to get this into CVS as soon as 
possible.    Also I've experimented with putting an arch
archive in the sourceforge project directory.  I'll try 
to write up some instructions for retrieving and branching
from up there.

Nice work!

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Win32 version not compiling

I just downloaded the latest zip off the website, however it will not 
compile.  It is looking for 'hashtable.h', which I am not finding anywhere 
in the zip file?  Is anyone else having problems with the windows version 
compiling?

I did open the project with Visual Studio .NET, is this a known issue using 
the latest and "greatest" compiler from Microsoft?

- Aaron