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

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

On 22/05/07, Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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

If you don't break the API in the next series, why would you make a
change that requires every application to be updated to take advantage
of the new release?  Doesn't that just make work for everyone?

I think it is great that you make incompatible release series parallel
installable with different sonames, but it seems weird to break the
build if everything is otherwise compatible.

James.