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

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2007, 12:09 +0100 schrieb 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 good compromise between bleeding edge and completely outdated.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?

Thomas, what do you think? Did you come to a conclusion already? :)
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