Re: [gst-devel] Why is gstreamer not an external dependency?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 22 mai 2007, à 12:04 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele a écrit :
> > > 
> > > Definitely a good question to mull over.  I don't have a good answer.
> > > Maybe someone else does.
> > 
> > Well, to me, it makes totally sense to have a multimedia framework in
> > GNOME since many applications are dealing with multimedia.
> > 
> > I believe the goal is to move GStreamer to the platform once it becomes
> > API-stable.
> 
> For all intents and purposes, GStreamer *is* API-stable.  You will
> always have an API-stable GStreamer 0.10 to link against.  If 0.12 or
> 1.0 comes out, even if the API doesn't change, configure.ac files need
> to be updated to find it.  0.10 will happily coexist with 0.12 and 1.0

True, but if 0.10 is not maintained anymore when 0.12 goes out, it
doesn't help us a lot. That's probably the only big reason GStreamer
isn't in the platform yet.

Vincent

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