Re: Why is gstreamer not an external dependency?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le lundi 21 mai 2007, à 19:47 -0600, Elijah Newren a écrit :
> On 5/20/07, Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since external dependencies like hal, dbus, cairo etc. are built from
> > tarballs it's much easier to build gnome with jhbuild.
> >
> > I was wondering why gstreamer does not get build from tarballs,
> > because also gstreamer does not follow the gnome release cycle.
> 
> Nor does gtk+, librsvg, libxml2, libxslt, ekiga, libglade, and
> probably other modules[1].  Your question is a good one, but the issue
> is a bit wider than just one particular module: when should we make
> something a blessed external dependency, and when should it be part of
> GNOME?  I think gstreamer, librsv, libxml2, and libxslt may make sense
> as e.g. freedesktop modules that are considered external dependencies
> (I'm not proposing that, btw, just saying that I don't see any
> problems it would cause if others wanted that), but I think all the
> other ones in my above list make much more since inside GNOME release
> sets.
> 
> 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. Btw, it'd be really nice to know if there are plans to
release GStreamer 1.0 ;-)

Vincent

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