Re: Next Developer Meeting?

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:59:44PM +0200, Ichthyostega wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> didn't we agree on the last meeting that the next (April) meeting will be at
> Wednesday April 7, 2009 at 20:00 UTC ? This would be the second wednesday and
> - -- oops -- it would be tomorrow!

April 7 is a Tuesday, not even a second Tuesday.  The second Wednesday 
is April 8.

> Well, everyone seems to be quite busy with various stuff, but development on
> Lumiera will continue for sure. Maybe we'll do just a short meeting; for example
> we could discuss the question how to handle specific library dependencies.
> I think GDL is just the first instance of this problem and more specific
> dependencies will arise if we get more down into media processing.
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> Indeed, most media applications are plagued by such very specific dependencies
> on singular versions or even custom versions of commonly available libraries,
> which then causes a lot of tension with the common distribution mechanisms.
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> A common option is to ship the specific libraries as a bundle, but this doesn't
> prevent the packagers of the distributions to drop the bundle and try to get
> it to sort-of work with the version in the distribution. Of course, this just
> sort-of works and leaves the innocent users with lots of mysterious bugs...
> The current desaster with libjack in debian is just one of many examples.
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