Phonon, Qt5 and Tomahawk

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Teo Mrnjavac <teo at kde.org> wrote:
> Dear multimedia people,
>
> those of you who are maintaining Phonon, thanks! You rock!
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't be in Randa for the last MM meeting so I'm a
> bit out of the loop wrt Phonon. As you certainly know by now, Qt 5.0
> is out, and with Tomahawk we are looking to move to it as soon as
> possible, especially on Windows and OSX, while still being able to
> compile with Qt 4 on Linux for the time being. Dominik has already
> managed to do some rough porting of Tomahawk, but Phonon is a bit of a
> stumbling block.
>
> I'd appreciate if you could please give us an update on the current
> state of the Phonon/Qt5 porting effort, and its backends.
> Specifically:
> * are there any particular blockers or is it "just" a time/manpower issue?
> * is someone working on it at this time?
> * do current plans require Phonon to be shipped as a framework in KF5
> or can it be released separately?
>
> Thanks,
> --

I believe the consensus was to port the Phonon 4 API to Qt5 so zero or
minimal code changes are needed to port Phonon apps to Qt 5.
Later there will be a new Phonon 5 API, which we reviewed in Randa. It
will be radically different.

Someone with better recollection or update info might correct me.

In any case. Manpower will be an issue.