[Swfdec] A lot less stability!

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:03:45 -0500 Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 19:23 +0100, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > In my quest to solve bug 13815 I had to change the API quite a bit.
> > And while I was at it, I also made swfdec-gtk use the upcoming
> > libsoup 2.4 and changed the include dirs to "swfdec" instead of
> > "libswfdec". All in all, the API changed quite a bit and I hope it
> > didn't cause too much instability.
> 
> Shouldn't we depend on released versions?  I see that libsoup-2.4
> needs glib-2.15, and that's a development version of glib.
> 
> It looks like I would need to recompile glib, gtk and several other
> libraries, and then libsoup-2.4.  I may not get around to doing it
> soon.
> 
> Maybe swfdec could be backported to the latest libsoup 2.2.x?  In many
> cases, a backport is less intrusive that than a forward port.  Or
> maybe the patch for libsoup-2.4 could be held in a separate branch
> until libsoup-2.4 is released?

I'm in the same position as Pavel and possibily less inclined to run
my machine with glib and gtk development version. I second his request. 

Thanks,
Riccardo