Re: 0.9.10 plans (was Re: [xine-devel] demux_mpgaudio problem)

[James <ja...@pi...>]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:34:55PM +0200, Guenter Bartsch wrote:
| hi there,
| 
| On Fri, 17 May 2002, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
| 
| > Another thing: is there any plans to use external libs for plugins?
| > E.g. the new RH 7.3 contains libmad - the same version as in xine CVS.
| 
| the plans to use external libs are to avoid them. keeping dependencies low
| is a major goal of the xine project - this helps compiling xine on
| "exotic" platforms such as solaris or irix (and machines where you are not
| root so you cannot install missing software that easy)

I like that. It's a pain having to download loads of stuff just to try
a new program out.

However, I've seen some clever config scripts that say stuff like:

* Checking for libfoo >= 1.0.9... NOT FOUND, using builtin version

so <whatever> comes with libfoo, but if it's already on your system
then the system-installed version is used instead. And if no
system-installed version exists, the one provided is used instead.

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