Re: [Sink-devel] forking the project

[Michael S. <mic...@gm...>]

hi

> I guess this shouldn't be a surprise but I'm going to fork Sink and probably
> rename it to something else, like Xink.

actually, it does come as a suprise :-)

> Basically, the fork will not include the following components:
> 
> 1. JMF. It's a nice implementation but it's not free and if I'm going to do AV
>    streaming, I'm going to go the XMPP way (which is not there yet).

sink without video and audio streaming? it's just a plain old jabber
client then, isn't it?

> 2. Swing. I'm not keen on maintaining this. But there _will_ be a
>    cross-platform replacement.

gtk is cross platform. oh yeah, not with java though. that might be a
tricky anyway finding a cross platform toolkit for java which is not
swing. maybe swt would work.

michael
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