[Buildroot] Analysis of VLC build failures

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Tue Feb 25 16:58:03 UTC 2014


On 25/02/14 16:17, Simon Dawson wrote:
> On 25 February 2014 07:15, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> 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


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