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

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 02:19:36PM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > 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?

Yes. Or rather, I'd prefer we avoid dropping 7.3 support the day after
7.4 is released, and this is one way of achieving that.

Christophe
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