Gstreamer-plugins splitting ports .. needs testing and feed back ?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:43:22 -0400, Michael Johnson <ahze at ahze.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I've tried to get ahold of lioux@ for a while now trying to talk to him  
> about splitting multimedia/gstreamer-plugins in to separate ports
> for each plugin but I have not yet received a reply. So I have started  
> splitting up gstreamer-plugins in to separate ports for each plugin
> I've spent about 5hours on it so far and I have completed a separate  
> plugin for ever plugin we had before, 47 in all and all working. I have  
> a working
> bsd.gstreamer.mk for use of WANT_GSTREAMER & USE_GSTREAMER=PLUGIN and  
> one working port using USE_GSTREAMER, which is audio/rhythmbox
>
> I used NetBSD's pkgsrc a guide to see what they have done to split up  
> gstreamer-plugins, can be viewed here  
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/gst-plugins/
> Makefile.common has all the goodies. Gentoo's Portage also does this and  
> it gave me a few ideas also.
>
>  From my checklist I feel like I'm 90% done, but the last 10% will take  
> 90% of the time.

Nice, thanks for your work! I haven't check with this yet, but I support  
with your idea/action/work as this method is a better solution. Only thing  
is that I never realized that it has 47 stuff in it. :-) However, I will  
'try' to check and might test it this week or weekend as when I find time,  
but I should be more back to normal in the next week.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Checklist:
>
>   Done:
>    - bsd.gstreamer.mk
>    - separate gstreamer-plugins in single ports (47 new ports)
>
>   Todo:
>    - Retest all the ports
>    - Figure out which ports use gstreamer-plugins and which plugins each  
> needs
>    - Code cleanup, spelling, any conflicts or needed dependencies within  
> gstreamer-plugins
>
>   In-Question:
>    -  Figure out how to make configure faster and not check so much and  
> only check what it needs
>         it takes longer to configure a gstreamer-plugins-X port than it  
> does to build
>    - Should sys/ plugins also be separated in to their own ports (this  
> includes cdrom, vcd, and oss audio)?
>       as of now they are built by default
>
> Please check it out and see
> cvs: cvs  -d:pserver:anoncvs at ahze.net:/home/cvs co gst-ports
> cvsweb: http://ahze.net:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gst-ports/
> tar.gz: http://ahze.net:8080/dist/gst-ports.tar.gz
>
> Positive and negative feedback is greatly appreciated
>
> Cheers,
> Michael


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