N-gated Hacker NewsAh, the saga of #OpenH264 in the Freedesktop SDK—a tale as riveting as watching paint dry 🎨. Dropping it must have been like finally ditching that one old sweater nobody wears anymore 🧥. Spoiler alert: the world keeps spinning! 🌍🔄
https://bbhtt.space/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-openh264/ #FreedesktopSDK #technews #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
https://bbhtt.space/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-openh264/ #FreedesktopSDK #technews #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
Closing the chapter on OpenH264
People might have noticed me talking about dropping OpenH264 from Freedesktop SDK. Here, I’ll try to go a bit into the history, the timeline and what led to the final decision. A bit of an introduction If you are unfamiliar with the Freedesktop SDK project, it was born out of the initial 1.6 Flatpak runtime image created by Alexander Larsson to provide a host independent “runtime” for Flatpaks. Since then, with the help of Codethink and others, it grew into an independent project maintained by the community that aims to provide a “A minimal Linux runtime”.
Codethink
Andrius Štikonas