Re: Weirdness on ftp

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 3/14/06, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org> wrote:
> > > So, did I just timewarp when I downloaded them last night?  Or did
> > > they get re-installed or something?
> >
> > My guess is that you downloaded from the gstreamer site before and from
> > ftp.gnome.org after.  The md5sums are the same since they're the same
> > files, just copied at different times.
>
> Ah, yup, that's right.  But, since gstreamer is part of the desktop
> release, I should probably switch the script to look at gnome ftp...I
> wonder why I didn't use that in the first place.  hmm...
>
> Switching would have also meant gstreamer-0.10.4 and
> gst-plugins-0.10.5 were released too late to be part of 2.14.0
> normally, but given the list of bugs they fix that you sent to r-t
> recently we can probably ignore that this time.  Do others agree with
> that?

I agree.

For 2.16 we should consider getting gstreamer out of the desktop and
into the platform and/or just make it an external dep. Assuming 0.10
will be API-stable, and on its own schedule, it no longer makes sense
to have it in the desktop, IMHO.

Luis