Re: [xine-devel] Re: Autconf & Patches for xine-lib

[Bastien N. <ha...@ha...>]

On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 10:27, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 03:44:56PM +0200, Guenter Bartsch wrote:
> >=20
> > hi andres,
> >=20
> > On 09/14, Andres Salomon wrote:
> >=20
> > > I've been meaning to ask this; is there any reason xine-utils is used
> > > (and wheels reinvented), instead of using something like glib?  Only
> > > reason I could see was due to processor-specific optimizations.
> >=20
> > i wasn't aware that glib offers a significant part of the functionality
> > xine-utils does? xine-utils mainly contains mmx-macros and other lowlev=
el
> > assembly stuff and besides that a few utility functions (oki, a linked
> > list and maybe xmalloc can be found in glib).
>=20
> The list, malloc, various utility functions (everything in utils.c),
> xml parsing stuff, and thread stuff are all implemented in glib.  That
> leaves the per-arch memcpy optimizations, and the YUV stuff.

XML parsing could use libxml or g_markup depending on the level of
complexity of the xml data to decode.

> > besides that the goal is of course to keep external dependancies to a
> > minimum
>=20
> I think glib is common enough (on unix systems, anyways) that it
> wouldn't be a major problem to depend upon.  However, I know xine folks
> have spoke about embedded system stuff; I'm not sure how well glib would
> fare there.

Although this would be far from perfect, there's always the cut'n'paste
solution. We already do it for a number of libraries. Using bits of glib
would be easy enough I guess. That's going to be more complicated if
some bits require GObject though.

Cheers

--=20
/Bastien Nocera
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