[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 594729] theora: Convert to libtheora 1.0 API

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594729
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | git

Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m> changed:

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          Component|gst-plugins-bad             |gst-plugins-base

--- Comment #15 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2009-09-11 10:40:20 UTC ---
> I stopped working on this because libtheora in current stable Debian and Ubuntu
> doesn't install the 1.0 libraries/headers correctly, so code compiled against
> it fails.

I think we should move to the 'new' theora API once the next -base release is
out.

I'm not so bothered about the issue in Debian stable, as I don't really
consider Debian stable an important or particularly popular platform for
GStreamer lib/app development (same for RHEL or Ubuntu LTS releases), and
Debian stable's GLib will be too old anyway when we bump the GLib requirement
after the next core/base release. The most current Ubuntu release is a pretty
popular development platform though (just like e.g. the latest Fedora), so I
think we should try to avoid breaking the gstreamer build on those systems,
esp. if the benefits from moving to the new API are rather small.

But even if we decided not to care about all that, we're freezing for core/base
releases any second now, so pushing this stuff in now so shortly before a
release would seem unwise in any case.

However, by the time releases are out it will be end of September / beginning
of October and there'll be a beta release of the next Ubuntu and we can just
ask people to upgrade or tell them to manually remove the broken .la files.

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