2009/9/30 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 29.09.09 22:46, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> >> Lennart Poettering wrote: >> > Uh. Nokia stands pretty firmly behind gst. As do most embedded folks. >> >> Behind GStreamer, sure. Behind Phonon (and thus also Phonon-GStreamer), not >> so much. They're currently using it, but there are people working on the Qt >> Mobility project talking about replacing Phonon with something else (another >> abstraction layer, again around native backends (GStreamer in the GNU/Linux >> case), I really don't see what the advantage would be over Phonon). > > Haha. So the major 'advantage' of Phonon that it would allow replacing > the backends as time progresses without breaking the KDE apps using > them now officially is proven to be bogus. The KDE/Qt folks were so > afraid of a media engine breaking API so that they created their > abstraction thing and now break API of that one more often then the > media engines themselves do. > > Do I hear an "I told you so!"? > > Abstractionitis is an illness, not a remedy. People who live in a glass houses shouldn't throw stones. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
