On Wed, 25.03.09 18:43, Zhang, Xing Z (xing.z.zhang at intel.com) wrote: > Hi Lennart: > More and more people like me are working on writing module of PA. A > problem we encountered is current PA dev-pkg released by > distribution vendor only includes header files for application but > not for module. > > Did you think about export pulsecore/pulsecommon header files to > module programmers so that modules can be developed with dev pkg > such as pulseaudio-devel-0.9.15-10.1.fedaro.i586.rpm. I tried to do > this by attached patch but accomplished nothing due to config.h > produced by autoconf can not be exported. > > Do you have any suggestion to pass this issue? It will really > benefit module programmers much if the process of writing a PA > module is as easy as writing an application in distribution. At this point the PA module API is not declared stable, and I am not sure it will be anytime soon. Thus maintaining modules outside of the tree is pain. If you develop your own modules the best way is probably keeping things in a git clone of the upstream repo and then rebasing from time to time. Also, I encourage everyone to submit your patches upstream. If the code is good I am happy to merge even modules that are not of any direct use to myself or anyone else besides your company. If you submit things upstream this has the big advantage that I will look over them from time to time and might even update them when I change the module API in some way. I am sorry, but I think allowing the core headers to be installed would send the wrong signal to developers: it suggests the API would be stable -- which it is not. We could cut a compromise however: install those header files only if a specific configure switch --enable-core-headers-i-know-this-is-not-stable or so. To accomplish that we'd however need some non-trivial changes to fix the config.h situation. That could be done the same way how glib generates /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h. Patches welcome. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
