From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:58:03 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Analysis of VLC build failures In-Reply-To: References: <20140223073009.3676E101056@stock.ovh.net> <20140223110021.16b6b976@skate> <530C4314.4000203@mind.be> Message-ID: <530CCB9B.2000101@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 25/02/14 16:17, Simon Dawson wrote: > On 25 February 2014 07:15, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: >> My feeling is that vlc is currently not in a state that we can release >> it. I have no issue with including some package that doesn't work very >> well in a release, but for a flagship package like vlc I think it's >> important that we really get it right. And currently we don't. > > When I (re-)added this package, I had hoped to have more time to spend > on getting it working properly. (As it happens, the project for which > I needed vlc has now been abandoned.) > > I tend to agree that this is a potentially "high profile" package, and > that it ought perhaps to be dropped from the 2014.02 release. I would also be OK with adding a comment to the VLC config option that warns the users that it is not working very well. I can send a patch if needed. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F