[Bug 796534] Wrapped subproject gl-headers breaks Continuous

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796534

Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Tim-Philipp Müller from comment #1)
> I think we should avoid unconditional/required submodules, and I also think
> that we should avoid git submodules. I would like us to move away from git
> submodules eventually.
> 

Moving away from git submodules requires implementing a meson feature that will
download wraps ahead of time.

> I don't know if we can easily make this conditional as an optional fallback
> in this case. Will have to discuss with Matt.
> 

We could make it windows-only, which would solve this.

> Alternatively, I wonder if we could just drop the subproject and put the
> headers underneath gst-libs/gst/gl/ directly instead.

We discussed this earlier, and a subproject is better because then we don't
have to duplicate it between -base and gst-build.

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