[vlc-devel] Can anyone tell me why this patch was done?

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Jean-Baptiste
Besnard<jbbesnard at actech-innovation.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     I've been working on the same issue and I came to a solution which
> consists in taking the sub-items back in the plugin’s medialist. I’m joining
> my  own patch, it was done to solve #2862
> (https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2862).
>    In my opinion the plugin should rely on the API for its stability. I
> tried medialistplayer too but it seems quite unstable. As to me the
> media_player should have a working playlist at the API level as it is quite
> a basic functionality but this would involve more work.

Why is the plugin exposing this playlist API in the first place? This
seems to be something you'd better do with a bit of javascript, no?
(Joining Remi's here).

Pierre.