I’ve been working with several Banshee people this week and we finally got my patch committed. All this patch does is provide a managed event that acts as a PCM and spectrum data source. While simple, it is a required building block for the upcoming OpenVP extension.
Right now I am getting ready for the 0.0.1 release of OpenVP. The version number is intentionally scary; the API is far from stable and will be changing rapidly. The purpose of this release is to provide a stable target for the Banshee extension. Hopefully getting this in Banshee will generate interest in OpenVP, as well as giving Banshee some cool eye-candy. Everybody wins!
My understanding is that after OpenVP 0.0.1 is released and the Banshee.OpenVP extension is finished (it’s proof-of-concept quality right now) it will be absorbed into the Banshee source tree and maintained over there. Which means it will likely come with Banshee 1.4 by default. Awesome.