[vlc-devel] Re: VLC 0.5.0 ?

Christophe Massiot massiot at via.ecp.fr
Sun Dec 8 15:49:40 CET 2002


At 14:31 +0100 8/12/2002, Gildas Bazin wrote :

>I agree that there is no regression from a user point of view in 0.5.0. But
>I must say that I also had the secret hope that 0.5.0 could make enough an
>impact that some developers would move from xine or mplayer to vlc. I don't
>see this happening right now because we've got nothing more than these 2
>players. IMHO, what is really missing right now in vlc to attract more
>users/developpers is a really nice user interface. More specifically we
>miss interfaces that are friendly to power users as well as casual users.
>
>But I also do understand that adding these features will take quite some
>time.

And I don't see why 0.6.0 couldn't attract more developers, if 0.5.0 
doesn't. And making no releases in more than six months does much 
harm, from a PR point of view.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.
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