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:
> Hi,
>
> > 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?
>
> The applications don't need updating, the configure.ac
>
> For some reason people *want* to see a GStreamer with the numbers 1 and
> 0.  So they will want to use a gstreamer-1.0.pc file.

Okay.  In that case, you could include a symlink from gstreamer-1.0.pc
-> gstreamer-0.10.pc, and have all the old applications continue to
build correctly and have a new version number in the pkg-config
package name, right?

It just seems crazy to break compatibility for something as small as this.

James.