[pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] New dep

[David Henningsson]

(Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation.)

On 2011-05-27 00:45, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:52:02AM EST, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>> The website worked fine as of a month ago. I don't know why it's down
>> now. The library serves the purpose we need well (light weight, doesn't
>> invent its own type system, allows you to parse out values individually
>> instead of mandating key-value pairs), and is available on every major
>> distribution ...
>
> It is availab ein Ubuntu yes, however its in our universe component of the package archive, universe being unsupported by Canonical. If PulseAudio master was used in future versions of Ubuntu, I would feel comfortable knowing that the json c library being used will reguaruly receive upstrea maintenance, as that in turn makes it easier for Canonical to commit to supporting the package in long term releases.

I'm assuming this is an optional dependency, right? What functionality 
do we lose if we don't have the json development headers installed when 
we build?

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