From kde-multimedia Wed Jan 02 09:48:32 2013 From: Bart Cerneels Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:48:32 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: Phonon, Qt5 and Tomahawk Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=135712014820431 On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Teo Mrnjavac wrote: > Dear multimedia people, > > those of you who are maintaining Phonon, thanks! You rock! > > Unfortunately I couldn't be in Randa for the last MM meeting so I'm a > bit out of the loop wrt Phonon. As you certainly know by now, Qt 5.0 > is out, and with Tomahawk we are looking to move to it as soon as > possible, especially on Windows and OSX, while still being able to > compile with Qt 4 on Linux for the time being. Dominik has already > managed to do some rough porting of Tomahawk, but Phonon is a bit of a > stumbling block. > > I'd appreciate if you could please give us an update on the current > state of the Phonon/Qt5 porting effort, and its backends. > Specifically: > * are there any particular blockers or is it "just" a time/manpower issue? > * is someone working on it at this time? > * do current plans require Phonon to be shipped as a framework in KF5 > or can it be released separately? > > Thanks, > -- I believe the consensus was to port the Phonon 4 API to Qt5 so zero or minimal code changes are needed to port Phonon apps to Qt 5. Later there will be a new Phonon 5 API, which we reviewed in Randa. It will be radically different. Someone with better recollection or update info might correct me. In any case. Manpower will be an issue. _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia