On 01/27/2011 10:05 PM, todd rme wrote:
I just read the blog from your link and then looked through some of the
comments and replies and imho I detect malice towards xine and a recklessness for vlc and pulse audio. Regards Dave P
Do you have specific comments in particular? I see nothing that indicates "malice towards xine" or "recklessness for vlc and pulse audio". They do mention that pulseaudio provides some capabilities that are not possible otherwise, but I would not call this "recklessness".
Pardon my casual use of words, I was referring (maybe malice was a bit strong) to the politician like replies to the comments that refer to problems with gstreamer and vlc which state that the xine backend was the only one that worked.
xine phonon backend builds from phonon, makes me wonder why they blame xine for the problem.
What makes you think "they blame xine for the problem"? I have seen nothing to indicate this. As I keep saying, they simply don't have enough time to maintain three backends. I don't see them blaming xine for anything.
My loose tongue again once again I apologise, it's my own perception from their non comment about xine except that it's no longer maintained, no requests for help with maintenance just a stony statement that, pasted from the site, "Xine is as of now considered unmaintained and should not be used anymore." seems very closed in an open source world not to mention the fact that xine is maintained and the 1.2 xine-lib is under active development. Maybe they didn't mean it the way it came out, with a little thought it could have become "Phonon-backend-xine is as of now considered unmaintained and should not be used anymore." which is a statement they are qualified to make. The first comment on the page stated how sad they were that xine was no longer maintained, I replied that xine was in fact still under active maintenance. Dave P. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org