Re: [jokosher-devel] Run script for 0.2

["Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org>]

> The deb would probably install into /opt or similar an run without
> interfering with other apps. OK you'd need root access but that shouldn't be
> a problem.

It will be a problem, though. I'd really like to not require root
access to try stuff out. What's the benefit of installing into /opt?
Providing debs only works on one specific Ubuntu release anyway; are
you proposing we provide dapper, edgy, and etch debs, and Fedora and
SuSE rpms? We've suddenly become upstream GStreamer maintainers, which
sounds like a really bad idea to me.

> If you install anything else you need root access. GStreamer is
> not that straightforward to build correctly. For instance you can run it
> right through without errors and then find you can't play files in MP3
> format because you didn't have libmad dev files installed when you built and
> you didn't see that particular message in all the mass of output. And if
> you're scripting the process then you're even less likely to be watching
> when that line scrolls by. Your script will have to be very careful that
> *every* required dev package is there before the build starts.

Yes. However, I'm not sure we need *everything*. I'd like the
resultant Jokosher to play mp3s and oggs and wav; if it misses a few
more obscure formats then, well, whatever. 0.2 is still to some extent
a technology preview. We can't make it all work swimmingly until it's
integrated into distributions, which is a goal for 1.0, not 0.2.

sil

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