[Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center

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http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030





--- Comment #113 from Alex Lancaster <alexl at users.sourceforge.net>  2010-03-02 09:44:59 ---
(In reply to comment #110)

> > Are these 2 actual separate projects with URLs?
> 
> Yes.
> cximage: http://www.xdp.it/cximage/600/cximage600_full.zip
> libcmyth is part of the mvpmc project (and should probably be split out
> upstream):
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mvpmc/files/mvpmc/mvpmc-0.3.4/mvpmc-0.3.4.tar.gz/download
> 
> Of the two, cximage is the most likely to be used elsewhere.
> 
> For the record, cximage hasn't been updated since 2008 and libcmyth since 2007.

I regularly see commits for libcmyth in SVN trunk, so perhaps XBMC has become
the defacto upstream for this library?  Hopefully upstream XBMC will chime on
this.

Also hopefully they will chime on the feasibility of using external cximage.


> 
> > > * libhdhomerun (already in Fedora)
> > > * libshout (already in Fedora)

> I'll take a look at these and see if we can split them out with minimal fuss.

Excellent.  You can post any patches here, and I'll submit them to the upstream
trac ticket for Fedora patches:   http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8629

> > > * libxdaap 
> > Is this used by any other package other than XBMC?  if not, I don't see a need.
> 
> I don't think so, so I suppose we could just leave that in.

OK, will do so for the moment.

> > > * UnrarXLib (can we ditch this and include patches to move to libunrar?)
> > 
> > I believe upstream has already done so in SVN, I think?
> 
> Brilliant, no point in reinventing the wheel for 9.11.

Hopefully upstream can check on this.

> > > * librtmp (could go into Fedora, I think)
> > > * libsquish (could go into Fedora unless there are patent problems, not sure myself)
> > > * libupnp (aka Platinum UPnP, could go into Fedora)
> > 
> > These 3 would require new packages, are there other packages that use these
> > currently, or would likely in the future?  Are they *all* necessary for basic
> > XBMC functionality  We should look at what Debian does here.

> None of them are currently in Fedora, but they all could be used by other
> packages in the future.  If any are currently being used by Fedora packages,
> they are bundled as well.

Again not sure if they are necessary for basic XBMC functionality.

> > Yes, in an ideal world, everything would be split out (and working with
> > upstream we will do so: upstream SVN is making steps towards that in any case)
> > but there is a tradeoff between insisting on dotting every i and t to meet the
> > review guidelines and the amount of volunteer motivation.  :-)  The only real
> > showstopper should be the legal one.
> 
> True enough.  I've just had a nasty episode with bundled zlib in deltarpm, so
> I'd love to make sure we're doing our best to unbundle what we can.  Except for
> the legal stuff, I don't consider any of these showstopppers.

Sure. 


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