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YAOMTC

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 204

Mangler is dead

Mangler is a third-party unofficial Ventrilo client for Linux.

• The website, mangler.org, no longer exists and WHOIS gives no result, meaning there is no longer any "upstream". Here's the last time the Internet Archive crawled the page: September 7th (over six months ago). I contacted their most recent hosting provider, RootBSD, but they haven't responded.

• The last update, 1.2.5, was in 2013.

• There has been a confirmed bug causing crashes since 2012 with no known resolution. I do have a crash every day I use it, though it takes a few hours for me.

• There has been a confirmed bug making the server list unusable since October (five months ago), and though someone created a patch for it at the end of last year... Well, you just have to patch it yourself, since upstream doesn't exist anymore.

• The Android app hasn't been updated since 2011.

Does anyone have any interest in taking over this project? The original developers don't care about it anymore. But then, nor do the developers of Ventrilo, apparently -- they haven't had an update since 2008. They do maintain their website though, at least...

There is a mirror of the last source tarball available on the Debian servers here:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/ … rig.tar.gz

If someone could either rehost that source file somewhere, or edit the PKGBUILD to use the Debian mirror, that'd be great. I'm not sure how to contact the maintainer of the Arch package.

EDIT: Github mirror (Android source too)

Last edited by YAOMTC (2016-03-19 01:24:35)

theGunslinger

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Registered: 2011-05-20

Posts: 300

Re: Mangler is dead

Why not use Mumble? It's superior and open source, has packages for many distros and is alive and well. Even TeamSpeak has a package in [community] why hold on to a dead project?

YAOMTC

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 204

Re: Mangler is dead

Mumble is better than Ventrilo by far, but sometimes a group of people you want to play a game with only use Ventrilo. And often you can't convince them to switch, and so we have the reason for Mangler. Ventrilo isn't as dominant as it once was, but (despite its lack of updates) it's still a major player and we should have a way of dealing with it. Like how Skype is definitely not the best for voice or video calls -- I use it because of its install base.

nstgc

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Registered: 2014-03-17

Posts: 393

Re: Mangler is dead

Well, that is sad news. Thanks for letting us know.

Last edited by nstgc (2016-03-18 00:41:02)