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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Analysis of VLC build failures
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:58:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530CCB9B.2000101@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHt8ZCO3fhuv__zQweidJb=2TSBdC0M27P487=AOx1+780cm2g@mail.gmail.com>

On 25/02/14 16:17, Simon Dawson wrote:
> On 25 February 2014 07:15, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@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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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-23  7:30 [Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2014-02-22 Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-23 10:00 ` [Buildroot] Analysis of build failures Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-23 10:16   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-02-23 10:56     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-23 15:45   ` Peter Korsgaard
2014-02-23 23:46   ` Ezequiel García
2014-02-24 21:16     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-24 21:18       ` Ezequiel García
2014-02-26 21:10         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-24 10:12   ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2014-02-24 10:30     ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2014-02-25  7:15   ` [Buildroot] Analysis of VLC " Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-25 15:17     ` Simon Dawson
2014-02-25 16:58       ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2014-02-25 20:25         ` Peter Korsgaard
2014-02-25 18:14     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-25 21:08   ` [Buildroot] Analysis of " Samuel Martin

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