[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk v1] build-sys: requires gstreamer 1.9 or above

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 02:00:02PM +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
> > From: Victor Toso <me at victortoso.com>
> > 
> > The recent work on spice-gtk with Gstreamer for video stream is
> > targeting hardware video acceleration. One of our main targets is
> > intel-based hardware and for that the VAAPI elements from
> > gstreamer-vaapi are necessary.
> > 
> > The gstreamer-vaapi project is maintained and released as part of
> > GStreamer since 1.8 [0] and the auto detection for VAAPI elements
> > based on client's hardware since 1.9 [1].
> > 
> > This patch removes checks for old GStreamer versions and request the
> > 1.9.0 which is new enough for VAAPI. Note that we don't require the
> > elements itself to be present on build time.
> > 
> > Also, at this moment:
> > - Fedora 26 has 1.12
> > - Fedora 25 has 1.10
> > - Fedora 24 has 1.8 (EOL in August 8th)
> > - Debian 9 has 1.10
> > - RHEL 7 has 1.10
> 
> RHEL 7.4 which was released yesterday has 1.10, RHEL 7.3 has GStreamer
> 1.4 if I'm not mistaken. I'm wondering if we should follow the same policy
> as libosinfo, compatibility with 2 minor releases of long term support
> distros, compatibility with 2 major releases of distros with short
> support times.
> 
> Christophe
> 

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata.
If we stick to EOS we are screwed :-)

So you are suggesting to wait 7.5 to remove 7.3 support, right?

Frediano