Re: [jokosher-devel] The road to 1.0

["Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org>]

> I absolutely agree that we must end the dependence on CVS. It's a pain and a
> hindrance to a wider take-up. I was wondering if it might be possible to
> make future features that depend on external libraries optional. By that I
> mean that if you had a more advanced GStreamer that allowed you to do
> looping then Jokosher would recognise that and if you didn't then tough but
> Jokosher would still function with everything else. That way you could have
> the bleeding edge if you wanted it but you don't have to depend on it.

That's what we tried to do initially (remember the "Jokosher is
missing some features; it may not work properly" window?) but in
practice it was decided that it was too hard to do; we now have a hard
dependency on some things (like the audiopanorama plugin).

sil

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