Official deprecation of phonon-backend-xine

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Sat Jun 4 19:13:46 BST 2011


On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:21, Trever Fischer
<tdfischer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Its been mentioned once or twice in public channels, but nobody has actually
> made a straightforward announcement.
>
> The Xine backend for Phonon is totally unmaintained and therefore deprecated.
> The only backends people should be using are VLC and GStreamer.
>
> Unless of course, some willing and brave developer would like to step up and
> take on the challenge :)

How do we publicize this fact better? Move the phonon repo to some
as-yet uncreated attic space on git.kde.org?

Ian



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