[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] share: add wrapper script for the YoutubeDL Python module

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Hi,

To the extent that we use Python to build VLC, and that it does not come with the OS, then we may need to provide Python for the build system. So that depends on the build OS really. But that has nothing to do whatsoever with this patch set, which does not introduce any build-time dependency on Python and does not cause Python to be shipped with VLC.

As for YoutubeDL, we don't use it to build VLC and we don't ship it in any form.

This is completely different from, say, OpenSSL, where you'd end up both needing the headers and import library to build, and where you'd ship byte code in whichever VLC module linked directly or indirectly with OpenSSL.

Le 21 septembre 2020 12:50:15 GMT+03:00, Steve Lhomme <robux4 at ycbcr.xyz> a écrit :
>On 2020-09-21 11:47, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Of course not. We don't package a compiler, a kernel, a display
>server 
>> and a PulseAudio daemon. We don't package the decompressor binaries
>that 
>> the decomp filter uses. We don't even package ALSA and GL libraries
>that 
>> we have build-time dependencies on.
>> 
>> We need to provide sources for whatever we provide binaries. We don't
>
>> provide binaries of YoutubeDL nor Python 3.
>
>Doesn't it violate the GPL ? Python and all the things you cited can be
>
>considered as part of the OS but youtube-dl I highly doubt it.
>
>> Le 21 septembre 2020 12:39:26 GMT+03:00, Steve Lhomme
><robux4 at ycbcr.xyz> 
>> a écrit :
>> 
>>             Virtual Environment
>>             https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html
>> 
>>             The other thing is that whatever VLC needs, it doesn't
>>             pollute the
>>             system environment, potentially introducing incompatible
>>             dependencies.
>> 
>>         Using a venv does not seem very useful here.
>>         If packagers want to do that, thats a different story but
>>         in general I dont think VLC should set up a venv because
>>         it does not even install any dependency so it seems pointless
>>         to do.
>>         Even if we were to package it in contribs, a venv is probably
>>         not needed as it seems youtube-dl has no dependencies itself
>>         so it could just be easily imported without a venv.
>> 
>> 
>>     I think we need to package it in VLC since we need to be able to
>make
>>     package sources of whatever we use in VLC, our code, the contribs
>and
>>     the tools.
>>    
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