avidemux 2.5 & plugins - comments/ideas?

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Stewart Adam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Avidemux 2.5 was released recently which changed the build procedure quit a
> bit. Much of the functionality that was included in avidemux 2.4 has been
> split out into plugins which are now build separately from the main package.
> This introduces some problems for building, as the plugins require a
> installation of the main package (some shared libraries) to build properly.
>
> The two ways to package avidemux are:
>    1. Build main package, "make install" to a local directory in order to
> build plugins and then install everything together into $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>    2. Split out the plugins into a different package and BR avidemux-libs
>
> I prefer option 2 since the plugins can be patched/updated without having to
> redownload the shared libraries again. However, it looks like upstream is
> packaging plugins in the main tarball so this point is null. Would there be
> any other reasons for sticking with option 2? avidemux 2.4 is very broken
> (it crashes when open videos and doesn't compile on ppc) so if in a few days
> nothing has come up I'm going to close the review for avidemux-plugins [1]
> and go ahead with option 1.
>
> Thanks,
> Stewart
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719
>

I would contact upstream and ask if they are planning to release any
of the plugins separately in the future. If the plugins will always be
distributed inside the main tarball, then it makes sense to proceed
with option 1.

Orcan