On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:53:57 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 09:51:48 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > > > On 08/04/2016 09:37 AM, David Seikel wrote: > > > On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:08:11 -0700 Carsten Haitzler > > > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > > > > >> raster pushed a commit to branch master. > > >> > > >> http://git.enlightenment.org/core/efl.git/commit/?id=1f48ce5f6b588ade04d37680e318622991ac48b5 > > >> > > >> commit 1f48ce5f6b588ade04d37680e318622991ac48b5 > > >> Author: Carsten Haitzler (Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> > > >> Date: Thu Aug 4 08:04:57 2016 +0900 > > >> > > >> emotion generic - vlc - make it off by default as 2 video bends > > >> is silly > > >> as per bug. requiring by DEFAULT 2 video back ends is rather > > >> rediculous. pick one and the others are optional. you could > > >> argue xine now is barely worth it, but it's stable and works and > > >> has proven to be not any real pain. > > >> > > >> gst1 is a more optimal and far more complete/featured backend > > >> that the vlc generic one anyway. vlc generic has the bonus of > > >> out-of-process, but gst1 is pretty stable (unlike the 0.1 backend), > > >> so let's not make peolpe install 2 video backends (or possibly 3 or > > >> more) just to build efl out of the box. > > > > > > gst1 is not available on some stable Linux distros. :-P > > > > > Which one specifically? as far as I know all the major ones have > > migrated and shouldn't you just be using the stable efl to match your > > stable distro :P > > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS hasn't reached EOL yet. VLC works fine with EFL > on that. If I was a mere user, sure I would stick to stable EFL, I'm a > developer. Though previous stable EFLs also had to be told not to use > gst1. 12.04 is 4+ years old. so no. doesn't count. you CAN switch to vlc or CAN switch to gst 0.10 backend with --enables/disables etc. but frankly. you don't count. not for the purposes of selecting DEFAULTS you don't. if the idea was "defaults are only on if everyone on the planet has that" then you would. the point is selecting for the vast majority of people. > On the other hand, I'm considering a switch to Debian some day > soonish, or something else. > > -- > A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants > coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
