gstreamer 0.8.x vs 0.10.x

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:10:51 -0600, Chad Kittel <v3rt1g0 at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
> Hola!
> 
> I was wondering if any devs have toyed around with gstreamer 0.10.x.
> It is the next/current "stable" version of gstreamer, however it is a
> major API departure from gstreamer 0.8.x (what we have in the
> moonbase).  I've noticed more apps are starting to be written against
> the 0.10.x API but not all have converted.  The new bmpx can only use
> gstreamer 0.10.x (the xine-lib backend has been removed in this
> release).  Unlike the glib-2 update, bumping gstreamer to 0.10.x will
> probably break quite a few existing modules in the moonbase.  This may
> be avoided if there are newer versions of these modules available,
> however I do not currently have a box (real or virtual) with the
> necessary depends to test them. I guess I'm looking for some feed back
> from some devs who use gstreamer based audio modules, if they could
> test the current moonbase versions or newer versions of those modules
> against gstreamer 0.10.x.  If there are too many modules that would
> break, I would be content making a gstreamer-10 module in the moonbase
> and a %GSTREAMER type alias for things like the gst-plugins module.
> Sorry if this email doesn't read very well, I'm quite sleepy for some
> reason.

fortunately most people couldn't care less about gstreamer - and I'd rather not make an alias for something so incredibly unimportant. If you feel like it - make a zbeta module for the new gstreamer until most of the dependant module use the new API.

Auke