Re: [jokosher-devel] Run script for 0.2

["Jeff Ratliff" <jefrat gmail com>]

On 07/11/06, Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org> wrote:
> The idea behind the script is precisely that they don't have to worry
> about that. I appreciate that they will have to install a load of
> dependencies (gcc, make, liboil-dev, millions of other dev libraries)
> but once they've done that (and I think what we might say is "on
> ubuntu, run 'apt-get build-deps gstreamer gnonlin' " or similar), but
> after that they don't have to care that they need to compile it; they
> just run the Jokosher script and it does all the work for them. This
> isn't a perfect solution by any means, but unfortunately the perfect
> solution isn't available to us, because Jokosher doesn't work with any
> released version of GStreamer, and working versions aren't in distros
> yet. This is a workaround for that problem.
I think it's a great idea. We've always told people they need CVS
GStreamer, but everyone has a different version based on when they did
their CVS checkout. There's no way to tell if people are having
problems with Jokosher or a bit of GStreamer code that happened to be
broken on the day they checked out.

If nothing else, we need to establish a 'blessed' version of CVS
GStreamer that is known to work and has the features we need.

I think not doing anythig as root is a good idea. I trust your skills,
but I'm not running any script on my system as root.  :)

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Jeff Ratliff (Gomer_X)