> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:webkit-dev- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Hausmann > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] PSA: Migration plan to GStreamer 1.x > > On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 10:21:00 AM Philippe Normand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This mail is mainly for the GTK, Qt and EFL port maintainers, I > > decided to post here instead of cross-posting to three mailing lists > > :) > > > > So there's been work to port the MediaPlayer and WebAudio GStreamer > > backends to the new GStreamer 1.x APIs. At the moment you can choose > > (well, for the GTK port at least) at build time if you want to use the > > 0.10 or 1.x APIs. > > > > The issue is that GStreamer 0.10 is no longer actively maintained and > > the GStreamer developers/maintainers entirely focus on GStreamer 1.x. > > > > Moreover we currently don't have the manpower to maintain the 2 code > > paths in the WebKit/GStreamer platform layer. The GTK port buildbots > > already switched to 1.0 last month and I encourage Qt and EFL to do > > the same ASAP, at least for their buildbots. > > > > I'd like to propose we drop the GStreamer 0.10 support from WebKit > > once the next stable branch of GStreamer is released, it will be 1.2, > > scheduled somewhere around February. > > Sounds good to me.
This will also be less problematic from a security perspective in the future since it will be harder to get security updates for 0.10. Ryan _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
