Re: GNOME and GStreamer

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

Hi Federico,
GStreamer 0.8 was out for 2-3 years with a stable API/ABI, you make it
sound like we are updating our API's every second week. Remember that
GStreamer is not in the platform, only in the desktop currently. Our
experiences with this release series will determine if we can go for a
1.0.

The API documentation is 100% for the main GStreamer module (something
which it never was in 0.8). There are some helper stuff in
gnome-plugins-base which is not fully documented yet, but the coverage
is better than the same stuff was in 0.8.

Christian


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:33 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 14:08 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> 
> > As you all know GStreamer long ago switched to a system where different
> > stable branches are parallel-installable.  We did this because we knew
> > we were going to change API around a bit before reaching something we
> > want to call 1.0, and because it would help in the future when bigger
> > projects start relying on GStreamer.
> 
> The following is in the name of stability; sory if I sound harsh...
> 
> You have to commit to a stable API and ABI.  We can't afford to change
> all the applications all the time.
> 
> Is all the new API documented?
> 
>   Federico
>