Rene,

The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. However it is not API or ABI compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed in parallel with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.

A number of the 53+ individual packages i've been able to find that use gstreamer, still use the 0.10.x API and as far as i've been able to find out, (i'm awaiting 3 replies on this still, the other 5 I have contact with have all said no! (there are others, I just don't have use of their packages)). Their reply is basically that they don't intend to change at this time as they are stable and moving to gstreamer 1.4.x apparently requires some serious rewrites for them. They all say it's on the todo list in the future but they are all more interested in fixing their bugs first.

May I therefore ask for reconsideration.

On 01/27/2015 03:41 AM, René Rebe wrote:
Hi Barry,

think it is not really desirable to have two major version of such kind of 
package in vanilla T2. It is for gtk 1, vs 2, vs 3 - or Qt, …

In the case of streamer it may also be favorable for something targeting 
lightweight systems like Puppy to only ship the older version thru a target 
package overlay until the last packages eventually migrate to the newer version.


Regards,
        René

On Jan 26, 2015, at 11:57, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
T2 migrated from gstreamer 0.10.x sometime ago.

However, at least two packages in T2, 'pidgin' and 'uget', require
gstreamer 0.10.x.

Also, all major packages, that I know of, including seamonkey and
libreoffice, will build against either 0.10.x or 1.x.

Also, I do not know if this is still true, but 0.10.x had a reputation
of being superior to 1.x.

As the two can coexist, a build can have both if desired. I have opted
to build with only 0.10.x, and testing the result has been
satisfactory.

I got 0.10.x from T2, just before it got removed, I created
package/gst0 and put the packages in it, renaming them all with "0"
post-fix, for example "gstreamer0".

I updated the versions, and applied patches where required.

I have attached "gst0" as a tarball.

...my apologies, I only put "0" for the cksums. This was just a quick
hack of the existing .conf and .desc files.

If you want to put it into the official T2, then I can also send
patches to some .conf files, with extra test for 'gstreamer' or
'gstreamer0'.

Regards,
Barry
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