Re: [Banshee-List] Apparent problem with installing Banshee.GStreamerSharp.dll

[Bernd Wechner <bernd wechner gmail com>]

Nicholas,

Alas I lost interest and moved on to Amarok. Which I could build with 
relative ease. Alas I am finding the Amarok community rather inactive 
with reports the product is dying and am having real trouble debugging 
it in an IDE, so may try Banshee again. My main interest is in 
contributing to a living project I guess not a dying one ;-).

So in time I may try your suggestions Nick. For what it's worth I would 
expect a "make install" to build if the project hadn't been built yet, 
that is I expect it to depend on a existing binaries and if missing to 
run the make rules for those (i.e. build ...). But I can't recall the 
details right now and have other itches to scratch.

My take is if Banshee found someone who was building on a clean Ubuntu 
or Mint system and prepared to document precisely how they achieved that 
so it's reproducible, this would be a huge asset to the project ... I 
see projects like this dying (c.f. Amarok) for the simple reason that an 
initial wave of enthusiastic coders outgrow it and move on and fail to 
make entry for new programmers trivially simple ... and if that seems a 
high demand, I'm sorry, but most of us I suspect have plenty of things 
going on most of which don't demand investing 10 or more hours into 
trying just to get a first build running and the code up in an IDE and 
debugger to single step through as needed.

If Banshee gave us that, I'd build and start looking at contribs.

As it is, am working on other pet projects that are running way behind 
too anyhow so focussed on those.

Regards,

Bernd.


Nicholas Little wrote:
> Hi bwechner,
>
> I'm pretty sure there shouldn't be any compiling going on during the
> make install step, if that's indeed what you're seeing then it might
> be a bug in the build system.
>
> If you're having trouble with the managed backend (gstreamer-sharp)
> then an option you have is to reconfigure using the native gstreamer
> library by passing switches --enable-gst-native and
> --disable-gst-sharp.
>
> The solution and project configurations aren't too well maintained so
> I'd stick with autotools for building and just use MonoDevelop for
> editing and debugging.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Yours,
> Nick (arfbtwn)
>
> On 20 December 2015 at 06:40, bwechner <bernd wechner gmail com> wrote:
> > A week later and no sign of life from the Banshee community. Hmmm. I'm a tad
> > a stuck, and so playing Amarok right now, and RhythmBox as well, but I'm
> > real keen on Banshee too and would love to thin the page above that says
> > it's dead simple to contribute proved accurate but alas here I am humility
> > aside a software professional of many many years, who grew up on Unix albeit
> > has has a hiatus on Windows for a decade ;-) and I'm blown away at how
> > uneasy it has been to get even this far and now I'm stuck. I can't get
> > GStreamerSharp installed ... doh!
> >
> > Is it just the Christmas period that's so quiet?
> >
> >
> >
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