[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH-RFC] Removing the GET commands

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Mon Jul 16 08:50:05 CEST 2007


Hello,
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:23:37AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:43:07PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > 
> > all the GET commands now have equivalent properties since sometimes, so
> > we might start considering dropping the old commands. For ppl who just
> > use plain mplayer it's probably not going to change much, however it
> > will probably break quiet some frontends.

Do they do exactly the same thing with exactly the same output or only
something similar?

> > It would also be possible to use the cmd<->property bridge to support
> > the GET commands while still getting rid of quiet some code. However I
> > don't know if it is really worth it.
> > 
> > So what are you thinking, should we drop them right away, or still keep
> > them for some time?
> 
> I think you missed the documentation update.

Yes, and every removed command absolutely should reference the command
that it was replaced by.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger



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