Re: Next Developer Meeting?
Christian Thaeter <
ct@...>
2009-04-07 12:52:25 GMT
Ichthyostega wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> didn't we agree on the last meeting that the next (April) meeting will be at
> Wednesday April 7, 2009 at 20:00 UTC ? This would be the second wednesday and
> -- oops -- it would be tomorrow!
Oops .. i thought next week (didnt looked), but I am there tomorrow. I
think the purpose of reguular meetings is that they happen regulary,
even if we made no much progress and cant plan much, at least some short
acknowledgements are always neccessary. Anyways, there is progress
behind the scenes even if it doesnt look like it. Joel send some
announcements about his GDL work, where he did quite a lot. And i
learned Lua and working on uWiki which now gets some pace after i feel
more comfortable with it. Some others (raevol, alcarinque) also jumped
in and helped.
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> Well, everyone seems to be quite busy with various stuff, but development on
> Lumiera will continue for sure. Maybe we'll do just a short meeting; for example
> we could discuss the question how to handle specific library dependencies.
> I think GDL is just the first instance of this problem and more specific
> dependencies will arise if we get more down into media processing.
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> Indeed, most media applications are plagued by such very specific dependencies
> on singular versions or even custom versions of commonly available libraries,
> which then causes a lot of tension with the common distribution mechanisms.
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> A common option is to ship the specific libraries as a bundle, but this doesn't
> prevent the packagers of the distributions to drop the bundle and try to get
> it to sort-of work with the version in the distribution. Of course, this just
> sort-of works and leaves the innocent users with lots of mysterious bugs...
> The current desaster with libjack in debian is just one of many examples.
I would be more happy if 'our' gdl is installed as
/usr/local/lib/lumiera/libgdl.so or /usr/local/lib/liblumieragdl.so for
the time coming. We talked about that on IRC and Joel agreed, but its
just that it needs to be some work and figuring out to put that into the
build systems in a proper way. to be done by someone[tm]
Christian
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> Cheers
> Hermann
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