[vlc-devel] [REVIEW REQUEST] vlc: new contrib build system

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:33:39PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> Le lundi 27 juin 2011 21:23:26 Jean-Baptiste Kempf, vous avez écrit :
> > >  * always building from source tarball:
> > >    - easier GPL compliance
> > >    - easier offline/firewalled builds
> > 
> > Meaning: we need to do tarballs of people who don't do tarballs?
> 
> In case the package comes from a VCS, the build rules will create a tarball 
> out of the VCS export. Then the tarball is unpacked and compiled as "normal".
Great.

> This is slightly slower, but far simpler w.r.t. publishing the source and 
> compiling offline.

Do we really care about speed? I don't think so.

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