On 23 Aug, Michael Meeks wrote : > Any chance of an easy-to-check version method a-la gtk that we can > depend on ?
libvlc_get_version is not enough? > > 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 :-) No, all VLC installs are from distributions. We don't ship anything. We host SuSE binaries, though, but they package the core VLC for the next versions. Best regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf http://www.jbkempf.com/ - +33 672 704 734 Sent from my Electronic Device _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice