So here we go, I will try to blog more regularly and spontaneously about the weird stuff that infects my head.

Today’s just a short farewell notice to nyello, an advanced command-line client for XMMS2 and my first program ever packaged in distros such as Debian (thanks rafl!). According to statistics, it only peaked at about a hundred installs, but hey, that’s a start, and people were also building from source.

The package has been marked for removal, because I discontinued the upstream version. nyello was a lovely project, but after the Google Summer of Code, most of its logic was implemented in XMMS2 in the form of Collections.

nyello (which, as you know, means “singer” in Quenya, i.e. elvish) doesn’t die completely either, since I’m working on the new official CLI for XMMS2, codenamed nycli. It can be found in the nycli branch in my Git tree. I haven’t had time to work on it much lately, partly because some of its features depend on more work on the XMMS2 core, but I truly think that it has the potential to be a killer CLI interface!

If you have a lot of spare time, either sell it to busy people or help hack nycli to a releasable state! And if you are a normal geek and you don’t have any spare time, drop by IRC (#xmms2 @freenode) anyway to motivate me to do the work!

Farewell, nyello.

And long live nycli and XMMS2!