Re: Next stable Rygel release

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeenix gmail com>]

Hi,

> It is running on Linux actually, but a modified Linux for MMU'less (memory
> management unit) processors. My company is Ubicom. I think you already know
> us from a previous project. My colleagues have used Rygel as a renderer in a
> media project.

  Yes I do but I had forgotten that you were using it as a renderer only.

> Now we want to use it as a DMS. The porting we have done is
> mostly about writing the makefiles for Rygel and the required libraries on
> OpenWrt, which is the router platform we are using.

   Hm.. Interesting. Doesn't autotools support that platform or aren't
there any modified version of autotools that supports OpenWrt? I would
really love to have rygel be buildable/working out of the box on as
many platforms as possible so if you could contribute patches to rygel
for that, it'll be very much appreciated.

>We also had to add some
> patches for fork-vfork conversion, etc.

  Hm.. that makes me a bit more curious, We are not using fork in
rygel so why you need that?

> Do you know about OpenWrt platform?

  I've heard of it but don't know/remember much about it.

>> > Can we use 0.7.8 or should we
>> > wait for  0.8.0 (or next stable)?
>>
>> Why can't you do both? :) The unstable releases aren't for fun but to
>> get larger testing before the stable release. Anyway, 0.8 should be out
>> soon so its your choice. :)
> OK. I will upgrade to 0.7.8 first. It will be easier to upgrade to 0.8.0
> then anyway.

  Good decision. :)

> One issue we have with Rygel is its huge size. It requires a minimum of 5 MB
> flash and we cannot fit into our 8 MB flash when we add it to our router. We
> have also ported uShare and it only requires 500 KB, but we want to use
> Rygel, because it looks like more DLNA compliant and actively being
> developed. Do you know anyone using Rygel DMS in an embedded system? We will
> need to use 16 MB flash just for Rygel.

  Rygel itself takes less than an MB (~ 5K) both on the disk and when
running and plugins don't take much of memory at all so I assume you
are talking about all its dependencies. The thing is Rygel is designed
for GNOME Mobile and hence it makes maximum use of core GNOME
libraries. Having said that, you might want to strip all the binaries
(if you haven't done that already).

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124