On Monday 17 November 2014 00:37:20 Rex Dieter wrote: > Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Monday 17 November 2014 02:55:33 Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Yet Phonon officially supports GStreamer 1 now, QtMultimedia still > >> doesn't. These are the kinds of things we notice as GNU/Linux > >> distributors, not whether some developer adds some new feature to the > >> legacy GStreamer 0.10 backend. > > > > Which just goes to show how misguided the distributions are under that > > philosophy that usually comes from the GNOME world. Developers don't care > > about having the latest version, they care about getting work done. > > Updating just because the library is newer and cleaner is not enough; they > > need to get something in return. > > In fairness in this context, gst-0.10 is no longer supported (by gstreamer > upstream developers), whereas gst-1 is.
I understand, but that only supports my point. So it wasn't the distros that were shortsighted, the upstream developers were. By the way, I read somewhere that some distros are considering not shipping Qt 4 as early as their next releases. I also think that's shortsighted. Keep it in your repos all the way into 2017... -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
