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[Bug 443202] [NEW] Include swig files in the tarball/repository

 

Public bug reported:

The whole point of having tarballed releases and a public repository is
to allow people to build the software by themselves (in any architecture
and distribution) and contribute. It's quite easy to compile ffmpeg and
mlt by hand and run openshot with personal versions, but the python-mlt
dependency is an openshot creation and therefore the files for its
creation should be included in the tarball/repository.

Ideally, the tarball/repository should include a configure script that
would detect that the correct version of mlt is installed, detect that
swig is installed and generate the wrappers automatically.

Furthermore, this is necessary to "GPLize" OpenShot a little bit more,
since python-mlt can be considered a compiled library whose source code
is not being made available.

** Affects: openshot
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Include swig files in the tarball/repository
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Bug description:
The whole point of having tarballed releases and a public repository is to allow people to build the software by themselves (in any architecture and distribution) and contribute. It's quite easy to compile ffmpeg and mlt by hand and run openshot with personal versions, but the python-mlt dependency is an openshot creation and therefore the files for its creation should be included in the tarball/repository.

Ideally, the tarball/repository should include a configure script that would detect that the correct version of mlt is installed, detect that swig is installed and generate the wrappers automatically.

Furthermore, this is necessary to "GPLize" OpenShot a little bit more, since python-mlt can be considered a compiled library whose source code is not being made available.



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