Dropping GStreamer 0.1 Support

Jorge VillaseƱor salinasv at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 23:19:19 EDT 2015


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Tomasz Wasilczyk <twasilczyk at pidgin.im>
wrote:

> I already mentioned that on devel@ conference:
>
> I don't think we are ready for gst 1.0 yet:
> - some features are missing (device selection, maybe others)
>
This looks like is already fixed
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678402

> - there might be problems with win32 build (just need to be verified)
> - if I remember correctly, gst 0.10/1.0 is bound to specific version
> of webkitgtk (or vice versa) - you need to verify which one depends on
> which version of another; and again - win32
>
> There are also constraints on specific webkitgtk versions supporting
> Webkit1 API, which is obsolete in favor of Webkit2 API. Ideally, we
> could migrate to the latter. I don't know how much effort it takes.
>
> If we (you) address those issues and ensure our gst 1.x support is no
> worse than 0.10, then I will be in favor of dropping it.
>
> Tomek
>
> 2015-06-11 23:09 GMT+02:00 Michael McConville <mmcconville at mykolab.com>:
> > Hi, everyone.
> >
> > GStreamer 0.1 hasn't been maintained for a few years and the community
> > is trying to get everyone onto 1.0. However, Pidgin 3.0 currently
> > supports both versions.
> >
> > Dropping 0.1 would improve voice/video support, but would break
> > voice/video for some long-term support operating system releases. Are
> > there any objections to doing so?
> >
> > There are more details at the bottom of my wiki page:
> >
> >     https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/mmcco
>

I think we should drop gstreamer 0.1 on pidgin 3. Maybe this regressions
should go to michael's GSoC todo list.

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