On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:48:47PM +0200, Laura Dove wrote: > Package: swf-player > Version: 0.3.2-2 > Followup-For: Bug #307077 > > If I try to upgrade swf-player, this is what I get: > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > gconf2 gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-oss gstreamer0.8-swfdec gstreamer0.8-x > libgconf2-4 libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 > libgstreamer0.8-0 liboil0.2 liborbit2 libshout3 > The following packages will be upgraded: > swf-player > 1 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 39.3kB/3942kB of archives. > After unpacking 13.2MB of additional disk space will be used. > > This may not be a "dependency on Gnome", but what kind of "additional > functionality" for swf-player users should require 13 mB more disk space? > This must be a _real good_ one; I wonder why the Hell this did not lead to > a major version change, for such a big (should I say bloated?) additional > functionality.
Thank you for the vitriol; it goes well with coffee on a Sunday morning. The old player (based on SDL) was buggy and broken, and the bugs were all due to libSDL. Rather than waste any more time on it, I rewrote the player using GStreamer as a backend, and now it Just Works. Using GStreamer as the media framework for the player has been the plan for a long time, since a) swfdec is part of the greater GStreamer project and b) it Just Works. I spend enough time just making things work consistently, so I really don't care about taking up disk space that costs the user about USD 0.008 (yes, that's < 1 cent). As for the major version change, that's what 0.2 -> 0.3 was about. You've been suffering with an old, broken player for 0.3.[012]. The new feature is interactivity. People seem to like it and think it's a required feature for a SWF player. (Oh yeah, you might want to subtract the size of the dependencies of the old player, which was several MB, although probably less than 10.) dave... -- David Schleef Big Kitten LLC (http://www.bigkitten.com/) -- data acquisition on Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
