Re[2]: [Gnash-commit] gnash configure.ac ChangeLog doc/C/sources.xml

[Udo Giacomozzi]

Hello Rob,

Monday, June 4, 2007, 6:01:00 PM, you wrote:
RS>   If people cared about quality, they wouldn't waste their time watching
RS> YouTube... Seriously, although we all care about the quality, most other
RS> people (read, not developers) will just use Gnash for ads on web pages,
RS> navigating web sites, or wasting time watching video. We are only really
RS> talking about people that build Gnash from source, and just use all the
RS> configure defaults.

It's just about knowing in what direction we want to go. As you said,
it is *not* performance what we want right now, but you make an
exception for OpenGL... So, I can't follow your argumentation.

There is not only YouTube, Flash is used for a lot of other movies ;)

Just like your commit that slowed Gnash down by 75% (!) and nobody
seems to care about. It's okay for me since we (as a team, I
personally have other priorities) decided to not focus on performance
but then we should decide what we want.

BTW, is AGG really so much slower when playing YouTube so that one
notices the difference?


RS> The people that build binary distributions of Gnash
RS> will configure it however they feel like, as my experience is they
RS> prefer to supply all relevant options themselves, and not rely on the
RS> default behavior being correct.

So all this discussion is unnecessary?


RS> So we can argue all we want about the default, but the fact is
RS> it's a minor issue.

Agree. I personally don't care about the release details, but I'd like
that we all agree on priorities. It's pointless to fiddle with tiny
details (TimelineInfo) when the render fails on simple rendering
tasks.


RS>   Quinn's tasks for Gnash are to focus on the graphics end of Gnash.
RS> Initially fixing OpenGL and Cairo, but ultimately maintaining all the
RS> renderer backends, so we can all focus on other parts of Gnash.

Great! Good to know :)



Udo