Re: Proposal: swfdec-gnome

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 13:33 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:22 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > I think that using GStreamer for playback would be a must for swfdec to
> > be accepted as a blessed dependency (and thus swfdec-gnome added to the
> > desktop). We've been through not allowing other playback engines in the
> > past, so I don't think we can let swfdec change that position.
> 
> I also think it would also have to be proposed as a dependency for some
> specific application that wants to use it - we don't just add libraries
> because they are cool. Or it would have to be proposed as part of the
> platform, though I don't personally see Flash being part of our
> platform.

The specific app is swfdec-gnome (see the subject line and the rest of
the thread), and I don't think there ever was any hints that swfdec
would be proposed for inclusion in the platform.