[gst-devel] gstreamer-gnome

[Leif Johnson]

For what it's worth, I think this is a good idea. At the very least, it
would make the .pc files involved a lot easier to name, since there
would, I'm thinking, be two separate modules (gst-gnome and gst-plugins)
with two distinct purposes (providing higher-level GNOME compatibility /
plugins and providing lower-level GStreamer audio and video plugins).

For example, I don't really see why GStreamer should rely on GConf for
building ; none of the plugins proper (e.g. vorbisdec, mad, OSS,
colorspace, etc.) rely on it, do they ? Rather, it seems like the only
users of that functionality would be GNOME apps that also use the
GStreamer plugins.

I've been a bit out of the GStreamer loop the past week or so, so I'm
not sure what would be involved regarding GNOME and GStreamer apps
(rhythmbox, others ?) and this naming change. I'd hope it's only a
matter of changing the configure.ac files of the respective apps.

leif

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Benjamin Otte wrote:

> Ok, to get you all up in arms and start the discussion again:
> 
> I want all libraries that are not used by plugins gone from the
> gst-plugins package. Most of them should probably be moved into a
> gstreamer-gnome package together with the stuff in gst-player.
> This is gstplay, media-info and gst-gconf.
> 
> To give you some reasons for this:
> - gst-plugins are meant to be plugins.
> - We don't want to include all sorts of stuff in the plugins package. KDE
> stuff is already in a different package for example.
> - We are nearing API freeze. All this stuff is nowhere near API stable.
> And it never was during the 0.6 cycle either. We might want to make API
> instable releases with that stuff, anyway.
> - There's probably political reasons for this, too.
> - Package handling is easier. You can just refuse to build a gst-gnome
> package if there is no GConf. That won't work for gst-plugins.
> 
> nautilus-media should probably be put into that package, too. Though I'll
> leave that up to Thomas or whoever is the maintainer of that thing.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> PS: I'd like to get that done before 0.8, so we can add cool features to
> gst-gnome after 0.8 is out.
> 
> 
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