Dropping GStreamer 0.1 Support

[Elliott Sales de Andrade]

On 13 June 2015 at 23:19, Jorge Villaseñor <salinasv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Tomasz Wasilczyk <twasilczyk at pidgin.im>
> wrote:
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>> I already mentioned that on devel@ conference:
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>> I don't think we are ready for gst 1.0 yet:
>> - some features are missing (device selection, maybe others)
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> This looks like is already fixed
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678402

That bug only mentions v4l2 and pulse. What about Windows support for
the new API?
I could only find https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732283
which says it will come "later".

>>
>> - 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
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>> 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 Webkit1 API, which is obsolete in favor of Webkit2 API.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.
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>> 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
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>> 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:
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>> >     https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/mmcco
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>
> I think we should drop gstreamer 0.1 on pidgin 3. Maybe this regressions
> should go to michael's GSoC todo list.
>
> --
> Masca
>

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