[ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

[Michael Vasiliev]

That's awesome news, Shlomi. I'm sure in at least for testing :)

On 04/10/2012 04:50 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> libmikmod is a portable and open-source (LGPLed) library for playing various
> common formats of Module files, including MOD, S3M, XM, and IT. mikmod is a
> Curses-based front-end for it, freely available under the GPL. Shlomi Fish would
> like to announce that he resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod, after many
> years of lack of maintenance, after getting approval from Raphaël Assénat
> (raphnet), the previous maintainer.
>
> So far, libmikmod-3.2.0-beta3 has been released with some older changes that
> lingered in the old version control repository, as well as several important
> fixes for security bugs taken from the downstream Mageia Linux package.
> The version control repository was converted from CVS to Mercurial, and more
> development is expected.
>
> Plans for the future include releasing a stable libmikmod-3.2.0 and afterwards
> converting the build system from GNU Autotools to CMake, and then looking into
> fixing more bugs as they are encountered and implementing new features.
>
> The old MikMod homepage ( http://mikmod.raphnet.net/ ) now redirects to the new one at
> http://mikmod.shlomifish.org/ where new development will take place (some parts of it still needs
> to be updated, but it should already be usable).
>
> Any contribution including testing, reporting bug fixes, contributing changes (as patches or as
> clones of the repository), suggesting new features, will be appreciated.
>
> For more information about module files see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish
>