Missing files in app

[Ruben Grimm]

Am 16.12.2016 11:54 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> On fre, 2016-12-16 at 11:05 +0100, Ruben Grimm wrote:
>> Am 16.12.2016 10:35 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
>> >
>> > On fre, 2016-12-16 at 10:29 +0100, Ruben Grimm wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi there,
>> > >
>> > > I'm currently experimenting with flatpak packaging and for this I
>> > > was 
>> > > trying to build a VLC package based on a QT runtime, I built
>> > > myself 
>> > > (which of course is built upon the freedesktop runtime). I put
>> > > the 
>> > > gst-ugly-libs into this package.
>> >
>> > Why did you feel the need to create a runtime for Qt? The idea is
>> > to
>> > bundle it with your app.
>> 
>> Mostly for the fun of it. I wanted to experiment a bit. If I was to 
>> publish the flatpak, I would bundle QT, but I was excited, to see it 
>> working that well :)
>> On the other hand, if I was to set up a repository with more
>> packages 
>> using QT, I would probably build a runtime..?
> 
> No, almost no people should be in the business of creating runtimes.
> Creating (and maintaining) a runtime is the equivalent of creating your
> own distribution. It is complex and tricky, as you maintain all the
> lowlevel bits, and you need to be on the call for things like security
> updates.

Okay, I get the concept.

> 
>> Okay, that makes sense. I didn't get that right. The files are
>> there, 
>> but gst-inspect does not list the plugins and VLC can't play mp4
>> files 
>> and others. Seems like gstreamer doesn't look into the app/lib
>> folder 
>> for extensions. I'll look into this.
> 
> The freedesktop runtime sets the GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH env var which
> should cause it to look there. Maybe your runtime doesn't.

And that's why you don't build your own runtime. That'll probably be it, 
although I can't check this right now.