On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:06:41AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > > Does anybody know if the available apps for iRiver iFP-8xx and/or > > iFP-9xx players like 'ifp-line/ifp-gnome' or 'libifp/ifp_gui' have > > ever been considered for inclusion in fedora extras? > I haven't yet seen a graphical "ifp-line"-using application that gets > filenames with spaces right. So many applications just build up a > "command line" and pass it to system(), rather than building up a list > of arguments. This is almost never the right thing to do (see > http://cyberelk.net/tim/articles/cmdline/). > That said, ifp-line itself works very well for me. I use ifp-line without problems myself on my laptop with Ubuntu. I am considering compiling it for my desktop with FC3-x86_64. (I have no experience with ifp-gnome or ifp-gui). > Are you volunteering to make and maintain a Fedora Extras package > of ifp-line? Even if I had the abilities to make an rpm package I wouldn't volunteer. I am old enough, 71, to rest on my laurels. Let the young ones do the work :) Alexander
