Arts < 1.0.2 local root exploit

[Neil Stevens]

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Trimming the To and CC to something sane.. .

On Monday July 08, 2002 12:29, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> If you had been following the kde-multimedia list, you would have seen
> that this (and more) is what I have been proposing as strategy recently.
>
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-multimedia&m=102500101116464&w=2
>
> Note that this is a long-term decision, you can't make this transition
> in a few days. It also might mean - if it goes like I think it might go
> - that the monolithic aRts as we know it completely ceases to exist some
> day in the future. Being replaced by
>
> (a) a common lightweight soundserver (shareable with the GNOMEs) (*)
> (b) a codec API for various media formats (usable by noatun)
> (c) a common API to access the soundserver (CSL) (*)
> (d) a seperate music/synthesis framework doing "the rest" (SFK)

Of course, we can't actually ditch aRts until at least KDE 4, for Binary 
Compatibility reasons.  So, some of us (well, me and whoever I bring 
aboard) will continue active development of aRts until then, even of 
others of us decide to stop.

> If anybody feels like seriously discussing implications of such a move,
> such a strategic implications, risks, transition phases, and so on, I
> would be more than happy to get some comments on whether the big picture
> sounds approximately right.

Well, you already got my "no" explanation, but if you'd like to see it 
again I'd be happy to try. :-)

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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