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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > 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.

Any particularly bad issue?
E.g. I think it's okay to just remove the GUI code from mp_msg, but I wasn't
able to find any other significant GUI code under CONFIG_GUI _except_ a huge
load in vo.

> 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.

Did I? I remember it more like it being acceptable to drop it.
However the "complexity and ugliness" right now don't feel like
an issue to me _right now_.

> > 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.

Maintain so to make it competitive? No. Slowly build it back, all the while
making sure other GUIs gain the features it has but aren't exposed (e.g. via
slave mode), maybe.