[Development] qtphonon's status.

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Hi Pier,

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Pier Luigi <pierluigi.fiorini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/5/16 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>> [cross-posting to kde-multimedia]
>>
>> On quarta-feira, 16 de maio de 2012 18.55.52, Olivier Goffart wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Why do we mantain an outdated fork of phonon in qt5.git
>>> I am talking about the qtphonon repository.
>>>
>>> The Phonon team maintains phonon under the KDE umbrela, and the qtphonon
>>> repository is years behind.
>>
>> It was created because of the modularisation. It was expected that the Phonon
>> developers would pick it up. At one point, they indicated they'd like to use
>> the Qt infrastructure, instead of the KDE infrastructure. Clearly, they've
>> changed their minds.
>
> Hijacking the thread to ask this because I'm not yet familiar with
> neither Phonon nor QtMultimeda: is QtMultimedia
> (http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/5.0/qtmultimedia-module.html) a
> suitable candidate to replace Phonon at least for new and Qt-only
> projects?
>

Yes, that's the idea.

Girish