phonon4qt5

[David Faure]

On Sunday 27 January 2013 03:10:04 Harald Sitter wrote:
> as discussed previously there is now a transitional library for qt5 called
> phonon4qt5 and lives in a branch of the regular phonon git repos (pending
> release).
> 
> phonon4qt5 is a 100% source compatible version of phonon4 that builds
> against qt5. it is directly derived from master and as such should be kept
> in sync whenever a change applies to both.
> 
> phonon4qt5 is meant to be as unintrusive as possible. in particular it has
> a different soname (phonon4qt5) and include paths (prefix/phonon4qt5/) and
> can be installed along side regular libphonon.
> 
> the cmake magic still talks about phonon, so you still
> use phonon_INCLUDE_DIR and the likes to keep transitional changes to a
> minimum. to that extent all that should be necessary for an application to
> transit from libphonon to libphonon4qt5 is changing find_package from
> phonon to phonon4qt5 (please note however that you must add the include_dir
> to your includes as otherwise the headers may not be found - previously
> with phonon often residing in /usr/include this would have worked even when
> not explicitly adding it).
> 
> along with the library come special versions of the backends, also in
> phonon4qt5 branches respectively. those are also straight ports to qt5.
> the gstreamer backend still has some video issues but those are supposed to
> be fixed before the first release. however please take not that since there
> is no kde platform plugin at this time only libphonon handles backend
> loading and phonon takes whatever it can find first.

Thanks, I updated http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building now.

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