[vlc-devel] [vlc .9] Why GTK is disabled in Debian nightly builds

[Christophe Mutricy]

> I've noticed that Debian vlc .9 packages are built lately with
> (--disable-gtk) . That means wxWIDGETS UI is no longer available .
> Noticing that the packages still depends on GTK , why this configuration
> was chosen ?

The relevant flag would be --disable-wxwidgets.
But the wxwidgets interface is now deprecated and not enable by
default and not enable in the nightlies. It isn't present in the
tarballs. You can still try to compile it from git but there is no
guaranty.

>
> Did the maintainer personally chosoe to --disable-gtk as a default build
> configuration ? Or that was a developers' decision  ?

It was a developer decision. WxWidgets have all sort of bug starting
with unicode, scroll bar, inconsitent behaviour between release, ...

> Noticing that the packages still depends on GTK , why this configuration
> was chosen ?

If it's a build-depend then i forgot to remove it.
If it's a dependancies of a package it's more tricky. Which package
does depends on it ?

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Xtophe