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

[Marvin Scholz]

On 21 Sep 2020, at 11:50, Steve Lhomme wrote:

> 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.

We do not link to either python or youtube-dl in VLC though.

>
>> 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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