Re: Xv client library: shared version?

[Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich@nvidia.com>]

On 13 Apr 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Dear Mark,
> 
> There has been some discussion recently on the Debian list devoted to
> maintaining X (see CC) about the lack of a shared version of the Xv
> library.  There would appear to be an opinion that shared versions of
> the libraries should be included.
> 
> Any chance you could drop a note to the list about the rationale for
> not including the shared library in the default XFree86 build, and
> whether you think there may be any issues with including such a
> library in the Debian version?
> 

  It's not an X-consortium standard, or even a de-facto standard.
If you have an app that links against Xv, it won't even start
unless you have the libraries on your machine.  That would prohibit
using that app with anything other than an XFree86 4.x installation. 

   Say you had an app that wanted to use Xv if available, and do
its own software scaling/color conversion otherwise so it would
work on XiG's server or with 3.3.x.  If you called XvQueryExtension
to find if the extension was available your app will not run.
Debian can include a shared library if they want, but applications
wanting to optionally use Xv would be wise to compile with the static 
version.


				Mark.