why is projectM not in portage?

batistuta · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1384 Location: Aachen

I've been using projectM for a looong time already and I'm very happy with it, it's amazing.

I was wondering why it's not in portage. Is there a more stable or developed replacement? There is an ebuild in bugs.gentoo.org, but in portage is not even masked.

Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

Well, Portage lacks many ebuilds for applications. You'll have to wait for a maintainer to pick up on the ebuild in portage, or read the Gentoo info pages on becoming a maintainer.

batistuta · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1384 Location: Aachen

is this the only reason? ProjectM is too cool for not being in portage. There is an ebuild maintainer, because there is a quite recent ebuild in bugs.gentoo.org. It's just that it is not in portage.

genstef · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:15 am Post subject:

An ebuild gets into portage when it is being committed to our CVS repository by a "developer". A developer has passed two quizzes and has had a very good mentoring. To get your ebuild into portage you have two choices a) get a current developer to commit the ebuild b) become a developer yourself in order to commit the ebuild.

For users there is also a way to commit ebuilds - but not for the official Gentoo Portage Tree. User committed ebuilds reside in the Gentoo Sunrise overlay.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:22 am Post subject:

Since that is an xmms visualization plugin and xmms is being removed from portage, I doubt that it will ever be added to the tree. (Unless it is ported to other music players like Audacious)
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batistuta · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1384 Location: Aachen

DeliciousT · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Seattle, WA

projectM was supported by older versions of audacious via libvisual. Current versions have had libvisual support "temporarily removed for instability problems" according to faq at http://audacious-media-player.org/ Requests to nenolod the audacious developer for projectM have been put in here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-510532.html along with a whole host of other plugins that should make people forget their xmms sadness. I Look forward to the next audacious-plugins release.

batistuta · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1384 Location: Aachen

If looks like someone (Stefan?) too the task shortly after my post and now it's ~x86. Here is the link, and thanks to whoever did it!

mark_alec · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:41 am Post subject:

DeliciousT · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Seattle, WA

Oh happy day!

DeliciousT · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Seattle, WA

I am pleased to inform you that the newest version of audacious-plugins now has projectM support.

sirdilznik · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731

Simius · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject:

Hey, those screenshots are totally different from what I got...

I have a really powerful nvidia card (Quadro FX4000) with the factory drivers, 3d accel works perfect (never had a blink of a slowdown in Blender, even with lots of vertices), yet all I get from projectM are RED (yes, that's about the sigle color, with some occasional green and yellow thrown in) scopes. Yep, scopes. Round scopes, parallel scopes, but no background, none of the cool kaleidoscope effects I loved in milkdrop, nothing.

Is this something wrong with the audacious plugin, or is it that only the pbuffers plugin works nice, or is there some configuration step I missed? (I tried both the original config and the "fastcomputers" one too.)

TheChuckster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 91

I've always felt that project-M was unstable.