Re: [xine-devel] Dropping internal libmad?

[Bill F. <bil...@mi...>]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Michael Roitzsch wrote:

> >> A big part of xine's value comes from the fact that everything is
> >> included in the package and that you don't have to download 17 extra
> >> libraries to make it minimally functional.
> > So, what about defaulting to system's libmad if present? And rely  
> > on the
> > internal only if there is no system libmad?
> 
> That sounds like a good compromise to me.
> That or fixing FFmpeg so it can replace libmad. But this may be the  
> long term solution, why the former is a short term fix for the  
> problem at hand.

That also sounds reasonable to me.  As long as it still builds fine
in the absence of libmad, I've got no beef with such a change.

						-Bill