On Saturday 08 December 2007, Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > Just to be extra polite I'd ask upstream if they want people to be > able to use this lib. Perhaps they haven't really thought about it! > :-) This could be enough nudging to make them either bump the > SONAME for the next release or include it with the other libs in > the lastfm subdir.
Good point! Since I'm talking with them about 3 or 4 other things I might as well mention this. ;) > Regardless of what upstream says, it shouldn't be too hard (but I > haven't looked at the code) to patch the build system to move the > lib to /usr/lib/lastfm. Since the executable already has RPATH set > for the other libraries that are there, only moving it should be > enough to clear things up. No hard at all. I'm playing with it right now. > OTOH, if upstream decides to stabilize this lib (perhaps opening up > way for people to contribute some third-party plugins), splitting > the package should also be fairly easy. > > As a last idea: depending on which plugins (built-in or otherwise) > are available, it could be worthwhile to split the package even if > the lib is unstable, since then you could also split the plugins > into separate packages to reduce the dependencies on people with > specific needs. But if it only has some 2 or 3 basic built-in > plugins which are all needed, this point is moot (but so is the > point in having "plugins"! :-) ). > > > Cheers It's moot. They're plugins in name only. I think that one day, eventually, sometime in future, they plan to make these real plugins, but for now each is necessary for the client's function. A while ago I sent them a patch that could allow 3rd parties to write their own output plugins--OSS, JACK, PortAudio, etc.--but upstream's priorities have been elsewhere. Now that I look at it again, the patch could use a little more work. Anyway, I'll contact upstream and decide once I hear back from them. Cheers, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
