ons, 18,.01.2006 kl. 12.44 -0700, skrev Elijah Newren: > On 1/15/06, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > So, the release team messed up and didn't keep close enough tabs on > > everything, resulting in discovering an issue pretty late. We need to > > try to find rough consensus in the community. > > So, here's my understanding of this thread and the alternate one[1] > (feel free to correct anything I got wrong; I am not an expert in this > area by any means): > > - There is no good or optimal solution; all choices have multiple > drawbacks. :( We still have to pick one, though. > - 0.10 is more stable in the doesn't-crash sense, but has a less > complete set of plugins and thus cannot handle as many formats > - The regressions that exist from the less complete set of plugins are > limited to totem > - these regressions are for formats we can't ship anyway, though they > do limit what can be played in totem for those > non-tree-hugging-lefties[2] who would otherwise be able to just > download extra plugins. > - 0.8 has very little development or maintenance effort and has > unfixable problems due to inherently problematic API (causing various > crashes, as noted above) > - 0.8 and 0.10 can be installed simultaneously, though actively > depending on both is a bigger maintenance load that would probably be > better spent fixing stuff, and it may also be more annoying to users > since preference applets only affect settings for one of the two > versions (granted, this will only affect the users who don't want to > use the defaults and who are able to understand those dialogs) > - Those actively working on gstreamer now recommend 0.10, Ronald (who > has done *huge* amounts of gstreamer work in the past and is > volunteering to continue to work on 0.8 as his time permits) prefers > 0.8 > - most distros appear to be moving to 0.10 (JDS, Ubuntu, Fedora; > Fedora is shipping both versions, but 'gstreamer' is 0.10 while > there's also a 'gstreamer08') > - not knowing what we're using is holding up the 2.13.5 release > > So, here's my proposal: > Ship with 0.10. Have everything default to it. Also include 0.8 in > the ftp directory, but not used. Include a big old section in the > release notes explaining the situation and letting people know that > they can recompile totem or compile a second version of totem against > 0.8 if they wish. > I'm with you on all points. I would like to see the GStreamer hackers fix as many of the known issues ASAP though. Not that I expect them to get to them all, but it would be nice to make stability and feature parity priority #1 in the remaining time before the final release. I know you can do it! :-)
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