Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Bulding latest CVS

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On 6/22/05, Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 13:33 +0100, Peter Robinson a écrit :
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Just built the cvs version of rhythmbox on FC4 (very nice) and had
> > some queries. Is there plans on adding support for the later versions
> > of dbus and hal. I notices that when trying to compile it comes back
> > and says hal > 0.5 and dbus > 0.3 and excludes it. I seem to recall
> > that there were api changes for those releases so I'd guess that would
> > be why, just wondering.
> >
> 
> It will use newer versions when a patch is written, in the mean time, I
> felt it was preferrable to cleanly disable hal/dbus support when newer
> version are detected instead of letting the compilation fail...

Fair enough :-)

> > I was also quite interested as to why it uses totem (or part there of)
> >
> 
> It uses the playlist parsing code from totem, better to share code when
> possible ;)

Nice. Will this eventually be moved up into gstreamer for universal
playlist code for any media player or become its own library. It just
seems weird having a dep on a video player. Not that its a issue for
me as I use totem too :-)

P