[gst-devel] GSoC proposal: Improving GStreamer on Windows and Mac

[Stefan Kost]

Andoni Morales schrieb:
> 2009/3/25 Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de>:
>> Andoni Morales schrieb:
>>>> A few comments:
>>>> don't include Mac in the headline, if you don't plan to cover it :)
>>>>
>>> Andrés is actually working on the Mac installer and it would be nice
>>> to include it in the GSoC project. The problem with macports and
>>> GStreamer is that some plugins depends on GTK, which adds an important
>>> overhead when you have to package everything. Our idea is to remove
>>> these plugins to reduce the size of the final package.
>> There are no *plugins* that depends on gtk. gtk is only used in tests/examples.
> 
> Not directly, but in macports gst-plugins-bad depends on gnomevfs,
> which depends on gconf, and this last depends on gtk. So, by removing
> the  gnomevfs dependency from the gst-plugins-bad Portfiles, you are
> reducing the dependencies tree.

gnomevfs is in base. and a gconf package should not hard-depend on gtk. But
anyway gnomevfs plugin is kind of superseeded by the gio one (almost) so thats okay.


Stefan