From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:30:27 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/14] gst-fsl-plugins: bump version to 4.0.3 In-Reply-To: <20150910141745.5af8e0bd@free-electrons.com> References: <1441830063-8190-1-git-send-email-gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com> <1441830063-8190-10-git-send-email-gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com> <20150910141745.5af8e0bd@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <55F1B023.1080506@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10-09-15 14:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Gary, > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:20:58 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote: > >> Quick comment on this one, I might delete this package during next cycle >> as it is not maintained any more and has been removed from Yocto: >> https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/commit/83b240e >> >> Let me know your thoughts on this. > > GStreamer 0.10.x is anyway no longer being developed, I'm not sure it's > really being maintained anymore either. It has never been maintained. They stopped making 0.10 releases as soon as 1.0 (actually 0.11) existed. > We're keeping it in Buildroot > for those people who are using platforms that don't have GStreamer 1.x > plugins, or who have applications written with the GStreamer 0.10.x > API. > > We will have to decide at some point to mark GStreamer 0.10 as > deprecated. Not sure when will be the right, I'm not a GStreamer user > personally, so I don't know until when we should support 0.10. We can deprecate it as soon as all packages that depend on it disappear. Which is probably never. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF