[MPlayer-dev-eng] GUI status

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> On Monday, 07 April 2008 at 11:42, Luca Barbato wrote:
>  > Nico Sabbi wrote:
>  > > On Monday 07 April 2008 00:53:05 Uoti Urpala wrote:
>  > >
>  > >> I don't see why it would have to be such a 100% black or white
>  > >> decision. IMO it seems quite reasonable to disable the GUI "for
>  > >> now" so it doesn't hold back other development but could possibly
>  > >> be re-enabled later. Of course if it becomes clear that no one is
>  > >> ever going to fix it then it could as well be dropped at once.
>  > >
>  > > the gui is and alwas was in such a horrible state that IMO it's
>  > > better either remove it entirely or move it somewhere else,
>  > > provided it's not in the way of development.
>  > > As Ben wrote, there are other and better guis for mplayer
>  > > that work well enough. No one will miss the old one
>  >
>  > Would be good move it to a separate branch indeed
>
>  Which effectively leaves it to rot. Not that it isn't rotting anyway,
>  but if we're going to do it, let's do it properly and just kill it.

The whole MPlayer is rotting. The whole audio system is also left
completely unmaintained. It doesn't mean we should remove it at first
sign of trouble.