Re: [Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center

OK, an attempt of a short summary: * Technically: *-12 doesn't build for FC13 ;) - An API change between rpmfusion's FC12 and FC13's ffmpeg breaks xbmc. - xbmc is victim of the DSO changes in FC13. - There is a subtile configure script bug somewhere causing it to (silently) not to work for FC13. I have dirty hacks addressing the 1st and 2nd issues pending, but am still investigating the latter, yet. Could be one these "autoreconf is harmful" cases, could also be a side-effect of the DSO-changes, could be something else, ... I don't know yet. * Usability-wise: - Verify that python works sufficiently. There have been reports that xbmc's python scripts (python2.4) don't work on Fedora (python2.6). I haven't see any such python breakdown yet, so I don't know how to reproduce such breakdown. - Decide about what to do with xbmc-standalone. IMO, it's dysfunctional. - Decide about what to do with /usr/bin/xbmc's "core dump feature". To me, it's nothing but silly. * Perform a legal review. - AFAICT, even if putting patent issues aside, xbmc is not [L]GPL'ed, because it contains subpackages/libraries which are not [L]GPL-compatible. The original xbmc code certainly is "free", but I am having strong doubts if all of the libraries they have bundled, are (e.g. GoAHead, UnRar). In Fedora, I would reject this package for "improper licensing" and/or delegate it for legal review to FE-LEGAL. No idea, about what rpmfusion wants to do about it. - One detail: xbmc contains fonts, which suspiciously look like "bundled msttcorefonts", but I haven't checked the details, yet. * Packaging-wise/FPG-compliance-wise: xbmc contains many "bundled" libraries. Alex, Rolf and I already removed some of them, but one would have to check further of them can be replaced with "unbundled" versions and which of them can't because upstream xbmc has hacked them up.