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<body><div>On Sat, 2023-02-25 at 16:48 +0100, Davide Perini via gstreamer-devel wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> My knowledge of JNA is not strong and my time for learning JNA/Panama is not enough so I'm not able to help Codelerity in this currently.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think anybody of the GStreamer developers has enough knowledge about Java/JNA/Panama either to take over maintenance of the bindings.</div><div>And even if, it's quite a time commitment. I wouldn't have the time to maintain another set of bindings next to the Rust ones.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">That (AFAIU) the bindings are completely manually written instead of making use of code generation based on the gobject-introspection data is not helping much either to keep the effort required for maintenance low.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It's sad for the Java bindings to become unmaintained but if there's nobody who wants to take over maintenance then there's little that can be done.</div><div>It's the same story with the C++ gstreamermm bindings, and I expect the C# bindings to be in the same position sooner or later if nobody actively picks them up.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>FWIW, there's another set of Java bindings which are mostly autogenerated: <a href="https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi">https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi</a></div><div>I personally didn't try those and as they're quite new I expect a few issues to be found once people start using them, but at least they're actively developed and maybe something more future-proof.</div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px;">Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · </span><a href="https://www.centricular.com/" title="Click to open https://www.centricular.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px;">https://www.centricular.com</a></div></div></span></div></body></html>