[Development] qtphonon's status.

[Trever Fischer]

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 18:31 +0000, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> I don't want to maintain a fork of phonon on qt-project if the developers
> decided they want to continue within the KDE infrastructure. phonon should
> have one upstream place where it is being developed.
> 
> I'd say let's deprecate the module and remove it from qt5.git. We can keep
> the code around for some time if someone sees some value in it.

I just replied elsewhere in the thread, but I wholly agree with this. I
don't see any real value in keeping the repository around for any
quantity of time, except to have a README that says "Yo, we've been on
projects.kde.org since ages ago."

> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
> 
> On 5/17/12 5:45 PM, "ext Olivier Goffart" <olivier at woboq.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 17 May 2012 14:46:27 Pier Luigi wrote:
> >> 2012/5/16 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> >> > [cross-posting to kde-multimedia]
> >> > 
> >> > On quarta-feira, 16 de maio de 2012 18.55.52, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >> 
> >> >> Why do we mantain an outdated fork of phonon in qt5.git
> >> >> I am talking about the qtphonon repository.
> >> >> 
> >> >> The Phonon team maintains phonon under the KDE umbrela, and the
> >>qtphonon
> >> >> repository is years behind.
> >> > 
> >> > It was created because of the modularisation.
> >
> >It was created because, at the time the modularisation was done, Qt5 was
> >not 
> >yet planed. At the time, the plan was that the modularised should be able
> >to 
> >build Qt 4.8 as it, with everything on it.
> >It was decidd only very late that Qt 4.X would not be modularized.
> >This is the reason why we kept phonon there.
> >(I know it, I was in the modularisation team)
> >
> >> > It was expected that the Phonon developers would pick it up.
> >> > At one point, they indicated they'd like to use the Qt infrastructure,
> >> > instead of the KDE infrastructure.
> >
> >I was not aware of this.
> >
> >> > Clearly, they've changed their minds.
> >
> >
> >> Hijacking the thread to ask this because I'm not yet familiar with
> >> neither Phonon nor QtMultimeda: is QtMultimedia
> >> (http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/5.0/qtmultimedia-module.html) a
> >> suitable candidate to replace Phonon at least for new and Qt-only
> >> projects?
> >
> >It depends what you want to do..
> >If you want a playback API to play multimedia files, or if you want low
> >level 
> >access to the hardware (recording, or playing generated sounds)
> >
> >-- 
> >Olivier
> >
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