[gst-devel] Bumping the GLib requirement to GLib-2.12?

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 17:05 +0100 schrieb Thomas Vander Stichele:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:04 +0000, Tim Müller wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > currently GStreamer requires only GLib 2.8, which was released in
> > mid-2005.
> > 
> > I think it would be nice if we could bump our GLib requirement to
> > something slightly more current so we can make use of all the new APIs
> > that were added in the last two years.
> > 
> > My suggestion is to bump the requirement to GLib 2.12, which was
> > released in mid-2006.
> > 
> > This requirement would be met by ubuntu edgy/feisty/gutsy, debian
> > stable/testing/sid and Fedora Core 6 upwards, and seems to me like a
> > good compromise between bleeding edge and completely outdated.
> 
> We're still tied heavily to fc5, so I would appreciate still working
> against that.  
> 
> We could roll in a newer glib package in the next testing cycle we have
> though, which would be within the next 2-3 months.

2-3 months sounds ok... would it be possible to drop all the ugly parser
hacks and require flex >= 2.5.31 and bison >= 1.875 then while we're at
it? :)
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