One year since last update on 0.10

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fr, 2013-02-22 at 12:12 +0100, dv wrote:
> > IMO, prolonged active support on 0.10 will only add confusion and
> > serve to poor overall quality of the code base: I've had a number of
> > meetings on people bent on using 0.10. As a result, this drains
> > resources on the 1.0 development because patches and work needs to be
> > backported, fixes need to be done on old code: an overall reinforcing
> > effect.
> >
> > The cut should be clean: 0.10 is dead; long live 1.0
> >
> > The more momentum in 1.0 there is, the better the quality is and
> > rendering the 0.10 release question void.
> >
> > /my 2c
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> While I support this, keep in mind that there are big software packages 
> which are still tied to 0.10. One example is the GStreamer backend in 
> WebKit. Even newest toolkits like Qt5, which integrate WebKit, are still 
> using 0.10. In addition, many hardware decoding plugins are written for 
> 0.10, not 1.0.
> 
> I think pushing WebKit and Qt5 to use 1.0 instead of 0.10 would help 
> considerably.

WebKit is already supporting GStreamer 1.0, and so is QtWebKit. The
other parts of Qt5 have some patches in their code review tool already.

> As for the hw plugins, the biggest names I can think of 
> are TI (with their CodecEngine) and Freescale with their VPUs. I also 
> know of Marvell's vMeta, but do not know how common these are. 
> Fortunately, many of these have their GStreamer wrappers opensourced, so 
> a rewrite without involving them is possible.

Yes, just needs someone to do it. And while at that also improve the
quality of some of these plugins in general ;)