Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

Hi Vincent,
So the dual 0.8/0.10 thing for gnome-media has been discussed and our
opinion was that we didn't want Tim to waste time working on a dual
backend system when he already had a lot on his plate.

Personally I think we should make 2.13 releases using 0.10. If the
release team decide that they are worse than the 0.8 versions then the
release team should just decide to use latest 2.12 release for 2.14
instead. If anyone ends up actually doing any work on the 0.8 version
they are of course free to make new releases from the 2.12 branch.

Christian

> Answering myself to try to move the discussion here (instead of the
> thread on release-team). Here's a more detailed "plan" I propose:
> 
>   + keep compatibility with both 0.8 and 0.10 in all of our modules
>   + push to fix regressions in 0.10
>   + come back in ~1 month (on February 13th, when tarballs for 2.14.0
>     Beta 2 are due) and look at what has been fixed and see if the worst
>     bugs reported against our modules are for GStreamer 0.8 or GStreamer
>     0.10.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I don't think there are features in the various
> modules using GStreamer that *require* 0.10, are there?
> 
> Vincent
>