GSOC / VLC status & next steps ...

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 23 Aug, Michael Meeks wrote :
> 	Any chance of an easy-to-check version method a-la gtk that we can
> depend on ? 

libvlc_get_version is not enough?

> > Linux, what do you mean pre-broken?
> 
> 	I fully expect that every Linux packager in the world looks at VLC and
> says: "but really this is 173 packages bundled together, of which we can
> only ship 13 by default" - and explodes the thing into 173
> mis-configured pieces, and in doing so destroys the value of VLC to
> LibreOffice: ie. "it just works" :-)
> 
> 	Of course; then (I imagine) most people just go and download the real
> thing from videolan.org - so my recommendation is, that we should only
> use libVLC if we are reasonably sure it is not the distribution
> package :-)

No, all VLC installs are from distributions.
We don't ship anything.

We host SuSE binaries, though, but they package the core VLC for the
next versions.

Best regards,

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