On Friday 23 January 2009, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Alberto Gonzalez <info@gnebu.es> wrote:
Gstreamer has its problems, but it's used by all the gnome people (most Ubuntu/Fedora users and more) so it's can't be that bad. Not as to not allow users to use it if they want to.
I'm fairly certain Pierre is not saying "screw choice!" here. It looks to me like he's saying "oh god, this is WAY too buggy and I don't want our users using something this broken". That said, i'm sure the PKGBUILD will still be around somewhere, so anyone who wants to can still build the package themselves
"I don't want our users using something this broken" is not a good idea, IMHO. No one is going to use it unless they want to. They have to actually install it and configure KDE to use it. Why remove this _option_? I'm sorry that Gstreamer doesn't work for Pierre, but for many others it does (while xine doesn't, for other reasons I already mentioned). So what I say is: If the phonon developers allow to use different backends, let's just don't limit them for no good reason (a good reason would be more like: "compiling support for Gstreamer breaks Xine", not "I don't like Gstreamer, it doesn't work for me". As I said, it's not like Gstreamer is an obscure or experimental multimedia framework, it's probably the most used one in the Unix world, so it can't be that bad for everyone).