Re: New modules in 2.14

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

Quoting Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>:

> As for "creating another ESD" I don't know what all the fuss is about. I
> think the problems caused by us using ESD are greatly exaggerated, both
> in techical terms and wrt maintainability. The package has needed close
> to zero work the last few years and I don't see a lot of people
> complaining about it in bugzilla at least. What they do in the various
> forums is a different issue, but some people will disagree no matter
> what choices we make.

The point I was trying to make is that we would have been better off 
without any
sort of hard dependance on ESD. Of course, at the time GStreamer was not
available to us, but my point was more that soft dependence allows us to be
more modular with what vendors want to do.

--d