Re: [Savonet-users] liquidsoap features/plugins

[Audiodef O. <on...@au...>]

It seems to me a good way to do this would be to select each feature in
the Liquidsoap PACKAGES file as a use flag.

On 05/27/12 15:17, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Hi Emery!
>
> 2012/5/26 Emery Hemingway <em...@vf...>:
>> I'm trying to package liquidsoap for gentoo and I have some questions.
>> I can get configure to list features as yes, no, or plugin if I wish,
>> but I  don't understand what that means. So I'm wondering what is the
>> difference between dynamic and non-dynamic features, and if features
>> can be added without recompiling liquidsoap.
> Dynamic plugins have been added in order to allow enabling/disabling
> features on a binary build of liquidsoap. Naming is a bit confusing
> but regular liquidsoap operators had been named "plugins" from the
> beginning, so "dynamically loadable features" have been named "dynamic
> plugins"...
>
> However, for a ebuild I am not sure that you need dynamic plugins
> since you should be able to let your user enable/disable features at
> build time, right?
>
>> As I have it now each
>> ocaml-* from the -full tarball is a seperate package and liquidsoap's
>> dependencies change depending on which features are desired. I really
>> don't know anything about OCaml other some autotools patching
>> everything builds and merges.
> Packaging the various ocaml-* is really up to you. You can certainly
> package a liquidsoap ebuild picking up directly from -full without
> having to write a seperate package for each ocaml-*. If you have more
> time, you may package them bindings seperatly too :-)
>
> Many thanks for you work!
>
> Romain
>
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