crystality News

Version 0.93alpha1 is available for download and testing. There is no fancy packaging, just source .tar.gz. It also contains precompiled binaries for i586 (built on Slackware 12.0).

I have just finished task of splitting Crystality to the engine and the frontends, I've also done some fixes and cleanups. So I decided it's the time to put the sources to SourceForge's CVS.

Some years ago I have written crystality-plugin for XMMS but, unfortunately, I could not maintain it. After years, I found there is still a lot of interest around my old project so I decided to maintain it. However, I have very limited time resources so things will probably happen not as quickly as I'd like.
Before I put anything to CVS or Subversion I have to do some work that will help to manage the code.
First of all - I'm going to split code to "core" and "frontends" and make "core" independent of external components. The API will be reworked then frozen.
I also consider relicensing to something less restrictive than GPLv1. I think it should be something like it but it should explicitly allow linking Crystality with closed code with the exception of a DRM using one.... read more