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

[Rob Savoye]

Martin Guy wrote:

> I wasn't party to that.

  It was a primarily #gnash discussion that we seem to keep revisiting
every month...

> that's the impression I got from the replies when it was mooted on
> gnash-dev a couple of weeks ago.

  Nobody responding doesn't mean the decision was changed. Changing any
of the defaults is not something I would be doing right before a
release. It may seem a minor thing, but one has to consider all the
related issues. Most people will be using a distro built package soon,
which will be using the OpenGL backend. Just because some of us don't
like binary blob drivers (I'm one of them), doesn't mean we're a
representational sample of probable Gnash users.

  For all embedded platforms but the Classmate PC, AGG is the backend of
choice. For the desktop, OpenGL is the backend of choice. I don't see
this changing till the AGG or Cairo backends have close to the same
level of performance for video.

        - rob -