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diff --git a/multimedia/beep-media-player/pkg-descr b/multimedia/beep-media-player/pkg-descr index e0ba276efb29..95efebff24cc 100644 --- a/multimedia/beep-media-player/pkg-descr +++ b/multimedia/beep-media-player/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ -beep is a media player based on XMMS (http://www.xmms.org). -The primary goals of this fork are UI enhancements with latest -technology (GTK2, Pango), and usability while maintaining the skinned UI. +BMP, or Beep Media Player, is a compact media player that was originally +forked from XMMS with the goal of porting XMMS to GTK2 and make use of +more modern desktop standards. The original XMMS is based on GTK 1.2, +which is now deprecated for roughly 4 years, and was deprecated at the +time of the fork for approximately 2 years. This, and the fact that the +developers were developing XMMS under a mostly cathedral-style model led +M. Derezynski to fork BMP from XMMS. -WWW: http://beepmp.sourceforge.net/ +BMP was discontinued in October 2005 with version 0.9.7.1 being +the last one. There is a fork off 0.9.7.1 in multimedia/audacious +and a completely new version of BMP in multimedia/bmpx. + +WWW: http://bmp.beep-media-player.org/index.php/BMP_Homepage |