Banshee 1.5 in the FreeBSD ports tree.

[Florent Thoumie]

2009/6/3 Romain Tartière <romain at blogreen.org>:
> Hi Florent!
>
> I saw you blog post [1] yesterday about banshee 1.5.0, but only realised
> now that it has been committed to the FreeBSD ports tree [2] after
> reading a message [3] on the mono@ mailing list.
>
> However, as writing in the announcement, 1.5.0 is the first beta of what
> will become 1.6 [4], and as you spotted out, it misses at least a
> working database upgrade code...
>
> For this reason, I would suggest to revert banshee to the latest stable
> 1.4.3 release and provide the 1.5.0 release as multimedia/banshee-devel,
> displaying an informational message such as the following before
> installing:
>
> | If you are upgrading Banshee from the 1.4.x serie, note that this BETA
> | version of the media player cannot handle the old database scheme and
> | at the time of writting, no upgrade procedure is available (this may
> | be fixed in a future BETA release).
> | After installing, remove the ~/.config/banshee-1/ directory and
> | re-import your music library.
>
> Please note that I have not installed 1.5.0 (Yet) so the message may
> have to be adjusted accordingly.
>
> Kind regards,
> Romain
>
> References:
>  1. http://blog.xbsd.org/2009/06/02/banshee-updated-to-150
>  2. http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/banshee/
>  3. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mono/2009-June/000098.html
>  4. http://banshee-project.org/2009/06/01/banshee-150-aka-16-beta-1-released/

I'm not sure how often banshee-devel will be used but I'm pretty sure
I don't want to maintain it.

I will revert to 1.4.3.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer