Re: [girl-list] GNOME Internet Radio Locator (GIRL) version 1.1.0

[Ole Aamot <oka oka no>]

Hi Dominique,

On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 11:44 +0100, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger
wrote:
> Hi Ole
>
> On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 23:20 +0100, Ole Aamot wrote:
> > GNOME Internet Radio Locator (GIRL) version 1.1.0 is freely available.
> >
> > GIRL is the GNOME Internet Radio Locator program that allows the users
> > to easily find and record live radio programs on radio broadcasters on
> > the Internet.
> >
> > GIRL 1.1.0 supports search by location for the 42 supported Internet
> > radio stations and is available in 9 languages.
>
> Thanks for the actually rather great tool.. I was missing something like
> that.

Thanks for the build patch for GIRL!  GIRL 1.2 now builds on Ubuntu too,
due to your patch.

> I started looking at packaging it up for openSUSE, but had some 'issues'
> with it

Thanks for packaging GIRL for openSUSE!

There are ArchLinux, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu binary packages so far.

> > GIRL was developed for the GNOME desktop and requires one audio helper
> > such as Totem (https://developer.gnome.org/totem/) to be installed for
> > playback and StreamRipper (http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/) to be
> > installed for recording live radio streams of supported radio stations.
>
> It's a bit a shame that this uses GTK2 and libgnomeui.. both quite
> outdated imho, but that's a choice.

The GIRL software project began in 2002, so the source is quite old and
depend on the GNOME 2.0 libraries from 2002 and I don't plan to rewrite
it before, say, GIRL 2.0.  Which libraries would you recommend instead?

> The problem I had, though, was that building with -Wl,--as-needed does
> not work. I started looking into it, but 'gave up' as the build system
> is setup anything but 'in a normal' way (Makefile.am injectss directly
> output from pkg-config, instead of finding the flags during configure
> and similar things).

Thanks for fixing it!

> If you want, I can have a stab of rewriting part of the build system to
> get this more standardized: having configure check for the libs,
> extracting the flags, and Makefile only referencing those results.

Your build system patch (Bugzilla #743340) is included in GIRL 1.2.

> > The station list is available in XML from http://girl.software/girl.xml
>
> Got already one more test station added to my local file... will test a
> bit more and get it back to you.

Thank you!

Best,
Ole

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