XBMC packages

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2009/11/30 Chris Nolan <chris at cenolan.com>:
> Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>
>> Do we known what is the diff between the original python and their ?
>> which patch do they bundle and if they could eventually be merged upsteam
>> ?
>> Or they just use another version of python (such as 2.5 or 3.1.x) ?
>>
>> Nicolas (kwizart)
>>
>
> I think they bundle Python 2.4.5 (!!)
>
> There are some relevant tickets in their trac:
>
> http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7754 (includes a patch to make xbmc work
> with python 2.6 - I haven't verified or even looked at this patch yet)
>
> http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7785 (patch to fix a python 2.6 crash)
Thoses part are rather new, That would be better to add them so that
will be part of the QA and the review.

> Also a couple of other potential problems with XBMC and RPM Fusion:
>
> 1) We have to exclude libdvdcss support :(
This can be kicked out as this library is meant to be dlopened by libdvdread
> 2) RPM Fusion ffmpeg doesn't inlcude libfaac support :(
so nor XBMC from RPMFusion, but this feature shouldn't be needed by
anyone over flac, or ogg support isn't it !

Nicolas (kwizart)