Re: [gnome-love] totem plugin development dependencies

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 07:49 -0500, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Richard,
>
> Totem does not allow you to build plugins outside of its source tree
> easily, since 'make install' does not install header files such as
> totem.h and totem-plugin.h.  So I think the easiest path forward will
> be for you to first build Totem as you suggested.  You can then add
> your new plugin to the src/plugins directory in the Totem source tree
> and rebuild.

That's fixed in the Totem for GNOME 3.x. For example:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=2264253

> Building Totem from git/master on Ubuntu 10.04 (or even Ubuntu 10.10)
> is not so easy, because the git/master version depends on newer
> versions of many GNOME libraries including GTK 3.0.  I'd suggest that
> you simply build Totem 2.30 (the version included in Ubuntu 10.04)
> from source, which is very easy.  You can then develop your plugin in
> the Totem 2.30 source tree.  To do this, download the Totem source
> from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/totem/2.30/ .  You could
> try either 2.30.0 (the specific version in Ubuntu 10.04) or 2.30.2
> (which will probably also work).  Then simply do this:

2.30 is 6 months old, and you shouldn't target it for new plugins.