[pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] New dep

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/5/16 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>:
> Hi,
>
> I've just pushed Arun's (mostly, Pierre-Louis also had a hand!)
> passthrough work to master.
>
> This carries with it a new dependency: json-c

What is the upstream location of that software? Googling for json
implementations gives a lot of small libraries, it is not clear which
one is needed as the pulse dep.

I guess it could be the one at http://oss.metaparadigm.com/json-c/,
but that website is out of order for some time now. The .tar file is
only locatable through the packaging systems of various Linux
distros/BSDs.

Needless to say, such an unclear status of a dependency is not really
helpfull in packaging PulseAudio.

> We may yet remove this and write our own parser for the simple subset of
> JSON formatting we use but there may ultimately be other reasons to keep
> this longer term.
>
> But in the interests of simplicity, I'd certainly not be against any
> native implementation patches that came along provided they were simple
> and clean.
>
> Please test these changes. I'm sure Arun will post more details and test
> requests in due course.
>
> Col

Maarten