[vlc-devel] Flamebait: PulseAudio removal

[salsaman]

Don't bother with phonon - I think only xine and amarok use it.

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2010/12/4 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
>   Hello,
>
> On Saturday 04 December 2010, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> To be fair there was an explanation in the commit log:
>
> No, there was not.
>
>> commit fa898f1beef7fae7c58fc1284c50a4cb886ad109
>> Author: Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
>> Date:   Fri Nov 12 07:03:46 2010 +0100
>>
>>     Revert "Disable usage of Xlib"
>>
>>     This reverts commit 3b1835d70aa38e4d86bcb9024c365e6b353766e4.
>>
>>     This revert was recommended by j-b, as the commit broke Phonon-VLC
>> in many cases.
>>     (mine didn't work at all).
>
> This does not explain why it would have allegedly "broken" Phonon-VLC. And it
> does not explain how it will not reintroduce the problem that the commit did
> fix.
>
> Besides, anything that this commit might have "broken" was surely already
> broken to begin with.
>
>> Although I will grant you that the explanation lacked a technical detail
>> that it probably deserved.
>
>> I'd be interested in seeing if it can be reinstated sensibly so will try
>> and take a look.
>
> If that is the quality standard of Phonon development operational mode, I
> think I'd rather not care about Phonon at all and pretend it does not exist.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net/
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