Qtractor alternatives revisited

[Brendan Jones]

On 06/24/2012 05:30 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Brendan Jones wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm returning to implementing alternatives rather than providing an upstream
>> patch at this stage.
>>
>> There is only one binary in this package. The only other files are an icon,
>> desktop file and a Qt translation. Is it permissible to package only this
>> binary in RPMFusion and have it require the Fedora package?
>> I can provide a launcher script in /usr/bin which does
>> `readlink %{_bindir}/qtractor` so that the desktop file in the Fedora
>> package will work for both. The Qtractor About dialog states explicitly
>> whether MP3 support is disabled or not, so its easy enough to determine
>> which had been launched by the desktop file.
>>
>> Or should I provide alternative icons, desktop file and translations for
>> both?
>>
>
> Hang on there. I managed to factor out the libmad parts of the code
> into an external .so file, and use dlopen the access libmad
> functionality. Things work here on my local machine. Now all I have to
> do is clean up the code and (re)fresh my qmake skills to automate the
> compilation, linking etc. I'll send you my patch once I am done.
>
> Best,
> Orcan
>
Great news Orcan, I was just about to submit my RPMFusion spec but will 
now wait.

regards,

Brendan