Hello list I need to make a design decision an I wonder if I might get some feedback here.
I'm a new maintainer, currently working on splay, an mp3 decoder. I've added support for native ALSA and used dlopen to get at the ALSA library. This means that the package doesn't need to depend on ALSA being installed - it otherwise defaults to using OSS. I'm also considering adding support for ogg files and playback using the JACK interface and was considering using the same method for similarly satisfying these dependencies at runtime using dlopen. I think ALSA is default for 2.6 kernels so depending on ALSA is not a great problem, but I was tring to avoid having to drag in everything else if all you want to do is play mp3s on a normal soundcard. Is this a sensible thing to be doing or would it be better to make splay depend on the extra packages? Perhaps plugins is a good way to go, but I wonder if this might over-complicate a simple command-line player. Any guidance would be appreciated. Cheers John
