[Kdenlive-devel] Install path for kdenlive_render?

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Mads Bondo Dydensborg a écrit :
> Hi all
> 
> We have got a request from a debian qa guy on manpages. Please see
> http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=420
> 
> Its easy enough to do and install a manpage for kdenlive.
> However, for kdenlive_render - should end users call this?
> 
> My guess is "no" - and then, perhaps kdenlive_render should not be installed 
> into /usr/bin. Your comments is quite welcome at this point.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mads

For me the question is less "should end users [be forbidden to] call this?" 
and more "could end users call this [if they so wish]?"

I would plead in favor of "yes, they could", or more precisely, in favor of 
"kdenlive_renderer and its relation to kdenlive should be documented".

But that's because I used my knowledge of that relation in order to 
circumvent a past bug where the profile (DV PAL or DV PAL WIDE) was badly 
passed to kdenlive_render, or kdenlive_render badly understood it; anyway, 
what I did was rename kdenlive_render and create an eponym bash script that 
analyzed its arguments and fixed them before calling the original 
kdenlive_render. This flexibility can only be useful if the user is aware of 
kdenlive_renderer and how it works, which means to me that kdenlive_render 
should be treated and advertized as a true application, in /usr/bin and with 
a man page at least.

Side note: wasn't there a plan to switch from kdenlive_render to inigo?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.