On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 13:53 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > Very very strong API stability on libVLC.
Great news :-) > API functions are added, that's it. Nothing is removed, ABI is kept. > Extension of API gets with newer functions, if needed. Any chance of an easy-to-check version method a-la gtk that we can depend on ? int libvcl_check_version_is(int major, int minor, int min); or whatever ? IIRC Minh had to fix some other issue without which we failed to work anyway, so we could depend on a new method being there easily enough. > Complete API instability on libVLCcore, but you don't care, and if you > link to libvlccore, I can't do anything for you :) Excellent; of course we need an easy way to check / get parsed versions to work around bugs, and avoid crashers so ... > Default is on Program Files (32bits) /VideoLAN/VLC/libvlc.dll > as recommended by Microsoft. > Regedit is: HKLM\Software\VideoLAN\VLC\InstallDir as recommended. Thanks for that - Minh - we should default to fetching the install path from the registry key on windows I guess. > > has nothing but perhaps a normal install path, and > > MacOS X is the usual mess, but we recommend /Applications/VLC.app/ and > you can find the libvlc.dylib Great; thanks. > > for Linux it's unclear we want to use a system / > > distro packaged VLC since it's almost certainly > > pre-broken. > > Linux, what do you mean pre-broken? I fully expect that every Linux packager in the world looks at VLC and says: "but really this is 173 packages bundled together, of which we can only ship 13 by default" - and explodes the thing into 173 mis-configured pieces, and in doing so destroys the value of VLC to LibreOffice: ie. "it just works" :-) Of course; then (I imagine) most people just go and download the real thing from videolan.org - so my recommendation is, that we should only use libVLC if we are reasonably sure it is not the distribution package :-) ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice