On Dec 4, 2007 2:32 PM, Alex Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "JM" == Jonathan Matthew writes: > > JM> If you're building rhythmbox from svn, it's really not much of a > JM> stretch to build totem-pl-parser from svn too. > > Or gtk2, or dbus, or libnotify... (should the minimum requirements for > those packages be bumped in rhythmbox). Yes, I know it's possible, I > can do it, but you then need to install it in a private area and set > things up so it compiles against the private one and not the system > version (to avoid messing up other packages). Also it makes it more > difficult for more casual testers (or plugin writers) to help out and > therefore increases the perception that rhythmbox is hard to test and > develop for.
If we were talking about anything more complicated than totem-pl-parser, I'd agree with you. It's a simple shared library with few dependencies. It adds 4 or 5 simple commands to the install procedure. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
