Phonon 4.2 and integration for Qt 4.5

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Sat Jun 14 15:42:53 BST 2008


On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> Matthias Kretz wrote:
>>[ ] The reason still does not justify breaking SC.
>
> I don't think it justifies, because there are third-party backends in
> writing. If people can't build them after they've upgraded KDE, they'll
> think the backend is broken. The thing is, the authors of the backend are
> not at fault, it's Phonon that changed.
>
> Otherwise, we'll end up with hell:
>  - install phonon 4.x
>  - build backends Foo and Bar
>  - install phonon 4.y
>  - build backend Baz

I would agree in general, about 4.x and 4.y. But there's only a
handful of third party backends at this point, if even that. Phonon is
really just getting started. I think it's fine at this point.

Ian



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