[pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] New dep

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 14/06/11 09:44 did gyre and gimble:
> (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?

No it's a mandatory dep! We'd loose the ability to play sounds :p

It's used as part of the new format negotiation stuff.

We only do relatively simple parsing of JSON stuff, so I'd be more than
happy to take a patch that just implemented the encoding in-house
(although that said, I'm quite tempted to try and use more JSON stuff in
the future - esp. in the HTTP protocol...)

Col


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