[vlc-devel] commit: Remove --enable-rtmp. ( Rémi Denis-Courmont )

[Rafaël Carré]

2008/3/6, Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl>:
> Remi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>  > On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:54:02 +0100, Jean-Paul Saman
>  > <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl> wrote:
>  >> git version control wrote:
>  >>> vlc | branch: master | Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org> | Wed Mar
>  >>  5 21:59:27 2008 +0200| [f26a646b38f93d0386141ee760fab791697fa84b]
>  >>> Remove --enable-rtmp.
>  >>>
>  >>> We have enough --enable-foobar already.
>  >>> RTMP does not have any dependency and is not huge.
>  >> I don't agree. It is fine for normal desktop/server use, but not for
>  >> embedded use were disk storage and memory is scarce. From the embedded
>  >> point of view having more --enable-foobar is better.
>  >
>  > This makes no sense. We have 340+ plugins, and we certainly do NOT want to
>  > have --enable flags for everyone of them. There are plenty of fairly
>  > useless plugins that are always on by default. It would be totally
>  > impractical otherwise, for both developers and external packagers, as the
>  > churn of option would be too high for them to keep up.
>
>
> I agree that having 340+ enable/disable flags in the configure script is
>  impratical. So I would want to suggest to use an approach like this:
>
>  AC_WITH_ARG(modules, [select specific modules to use this will limit the
>  default list of plugins used (default as always)])
>  if test -z "${with_modules}"; then
>     VLC_ADD_PLUGIN[ .. ]
>     VLC_ADD_PLUGIN[ .. ]
>  else
>      /* only add those which are mentioned */
>  fi
>
>  Add an option to specifically select a set of modules. The default
>  behaviour would be the same as always, just adding all the plugins that
>  do not depend on specific libraries, etc.
>
>  The --with-modules flag can then be used to limit the number of plugins
>  build and installed for those who care about it.

One could easily edit vlc-config (grep ^plugins=) after running ./configure
Or even write some nice script to edit it (a gui could be a nice idea)

-- 
Rafaël Carré