Re: [Gtkpod-devel] [PATCH] Improve the autoconf/automake taglib checking

[Christophe F. <te...@gn...>]

2009/4/17 Todd Zullinger <tm...@po...>

> Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > Hmm, this gives me the impression that we could ship our own taglib
> > C wrapper and compile it as part of gtkpod and not be stuck with
> > waiting for upstream to integrate it and for distros to catch up ?
>
>
> Unless it's really trivial for us to build a copy of the bindings, it
> just seems like more work than it's worth.  There's nothing wrong with
> a little patience.  It's not like the current tag library has gotten
> any worse, and we're not drowning in bugs or complaints. :)


I'm under the impression that it's just a C file + the corresponding .h and
that we can detect at compile time whether to use our version or the system
one. Even if the bindings are integrated upstream, it will take ~1 year
until they are in a release and they are available on people's systems. So
it makes sense to ship these as a temporary measure I think.

Christophe