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

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2007, 11:05 +0100 schrieb Thomas Vander Stichele:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 21:36 +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > 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 good compromise between bleeding edge and completely outdated.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? :)
> 
> is bison 2.1 and flex 2.5.4a ok ?

bison 2.1 is fine but flex 2.5.4a is too old (2.5.4a is from 1997 btw,
i.e. 10 years old!). For the reentrancy support we need at least flex
2.5.31 (which is 4 and a half year old). Would this somehow be possible?
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