[vlc-devel] [PATCH] skins: fix signed overflow in bitmap allocation

[erwan.tulou at gmail.com]

Thank for answering.

Right now, the maintenance effort required to just keep it running is 
not met. So the next step may be to re-apply the patch that disabled 
skins2 compilation a while ago. At least, that will prevent nightlies 
from shipping a skins2 module that keeps crashing desperately.

I'm not sure I still have commit rights. So, if somebody decides to 
re-apply this patch, no problem with me.

Regards
Erwan

On 22/12/2020 21:32, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> Le tiistaina 22. joulukuuta 2020, 20.41.42 EET erwan.tulou at gmail.com a écrit :
>>     As of today, the skins2 module is broken (crashing). The last patch
>> to try and fix it did not receive much attention. And it seems to me the
>> Qt module is evolving without much care about how the skins2 module may
>> be impacted.
> As far as I see, the Qt module is evolving without much care for anything
> except the Qt GUI on Windows. And I presume that even Windows is afflicted by
> the UX regressions reported on Trac by François, and performance issues.
>
>>     So, maybe time has come to ask the questions  :  is it worth
>> maintaining it or not ?
> That depends on how you measure worth.
>
>> what are the plans ?
> There are no plans. This is not waterfall. If you continue maintaining it, or
> if somebody else takes over, then it will be there. Otherwise, it will bit-rot
> and, at some point, get removed.
>
>> any new maintainers interested ?
> I don't know, but presumably not.
>