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by Fred on Thursday 13/Dec/2007, @01:56

I see the benefits, but find it confusing. Take PyQT. Will QT's phonon be included in PyQT binding's and if so, will PyQT stay only dependent on QT? (hope so). Same question for PyKDE. The library separation must stay clear. Will there be a QT component _and_ a KDE variant based on it? (both residing in KDE's repository?)

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Re: Confusing
by Matthias Kretz on Thursday 13/Dec/2007, @02:17

It's the same library. It's just going to get released more often (possibly with minor or no changes between KDE and Qt releases, we'll see). As for dependencies: libphonon itself depends only on Qt libraries. So PyQt could (from the Qt 4.4 release on) contain the Phonon bindings.

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Re: Confusing
by Thiago Macieira on Thursday 13/Dec/2007, @02:18

Phonon is the same library. It doesn't matter where it comes from, does it?

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Re: Confusing
by Lee on Thursday 13/Dec/2007, @03:40

Presumably what it means is that Phonon will be in KDE only, until Qt4.4 is released and KDE moves to using it. At that point, Phonon will be will be available at a lower layer, in Qt. The only really KDEuser-visible advantage is that the few non-KDE, Qt-only apps that don't use the rest of the KDE libraries will also have good multimedia support. As KDE becomes more and more cross-platform, I'm hoping there will be less and less Qt-only apps anyway, though.

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Re: Confusing
by sebas on Thursday 13/Dec/2007, @06:42

It means paid developers working on Phonon, less maintenance burden for KDE developers, commercial support available for Phonon. Trolltech's work on Phonon will assure good multimedia support on _all_ platforms for KDE.

Congratulations to everyone involved on this great piece of collaboration!

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Re: Confusing
by Ben on Friday 14/Dec/2007, @10:21

I was under the impression the paid development was happening already, it just moved from Trolltech's repository to KDEs. Am I missing something?

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