GSOC / VLC status & next steps ...

[bjoern]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:09:54PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On 23 Aug, Michael Meeks wrote :
> > > 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.

This is of course because the "split into 173 mis-configured pieces" fate is
carefully reserved by packagers for those upstreams that carelessly add 5
exciting new external dependencies with each major release ...

Best,

Bjoern