[vdr] Re: VDR and 2.6.0-test1?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> ...
> > > Well as vdr relies anyway on DVB API 3 it would be usefull to add the headers
> > > to the vdr package. This way I would not need to add DVB/ tree in parallel to
> > > vdr source. As there is no real need for the way now as far as i have
> > > understood, it would make things cleaner IMHO. This way f.e. building RPMs
> > > would be easier (a bit at least).
> >
> > I don't think it is a good idea if an application contains the header
> > files of a driver or any other library module.
> 
> I'm not talking of headers, etc. A program should include all the
> necessary code itself to be compiled against an API. Any change of the
> driver code could break compiling of the program. If no other way it
> would be an alternative to compile against hernel-headers as they
> shouldn't change much, but I don't like software with such a lot
> dependencies. Have you never been driven crazy as you had to install 13
> proggies and libraries to get a 50 kbyte code running?
> 
> My suggestion is to move the necessary code of the drivers to compile
> VDR into VDR and incorporate it in the next structural changes.

I don't think this makes _any_ sense!!
The driver is the driver is the driver!!
VDR is _one_ application that uses the driver - IMO it makes absolutely no sense
at all to include _anything_ from the driver into VDR's distribution archive!

Of course you can create your own VDR archive that does this - I for one
won't make it that way.

> > Having DVB in parallel to VDR is just a suggestion (it's the way I have it).
> > You can simply change the line
> >
> > DVBDIR   = ../DVB
> >
> > in your Make.config file to change this.
> 
> By the way - what about updating VDR and Makefiles to handle the path
> for the plugin-libraries. VDR should look for plugins in the default
> library-path of the distribution and Makefiles should install/remove
> libraries into/from the default library-path of the distribution.

I don't want to make VDR dependent on any special Linux distribution.
If you want to make a distribution specific VDR archive (that may also
contain parts of the driver, if you wish), feel free to do so.

Klaus


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