[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC][PATCH]removing gmplayer

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:40:11PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > > i think it's time to finally remove gmplayer. It's ugly and unmaintained
> > > and apparently no devs even use it. People who ask for help in #mplayer
> > > are always just told to use SMPlayer or some other frontend. Also it
> > > seems that most its users simply don't know that there are other (much
> > > better) options than gmplayer.
> > 
> > I agree and Reimar does as well AFAIK.
> 
> Not really, I don't see a point in dropping it for the purpose of dropping
> it, and sometimes fixing the issues it causes reminds us of some features
> that were actually _only_ available in gmplayer but never in MPlayer
> (VCD track switching).

How many features can remain if any at all?

> Right now I don't see a real cost in keeping it, slowly squezzing out remaining
> users via rot.

The costs are very real code complexity and ugliness.  The GUI is badly
architected.  It should not spread its fingers all over the core code.

What made you change your mind?  Last time you said that if no maintainer
is found, we should drop it.  After 1.0rc4 is the best moment for that.

> If you want to raise awareness, you might change the --enable-gui to
> --enable-deprecated-gui or such?

That might be a start, but do you really expect somebody to stand up and
maintain the GUI?  It would have to be rewritten completely anyway.

Diego