[IAEP] Tech roadmap

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> I forgot a note about toolkits
>
> * The gtk2 toolkit is deprecated and frozen but it will be supported as long
> as possible (at some point I guess some dependencies might start
> disappearing from distributions, making that problematic). The gtk3 toolkit
> is supported, backward API compatibility is guaranteed, it's not going to be
> deprecated in the foreseable future. The web toolkit is experimental, we
> provide no API guarantee yet, when it's mature it will be the preferred way
> to write activities (because of cross platform compatibility).

The other one to add to this list is gstreamer. At the moment we have
some support for gstreamer 1.0 and some (mostly gtk2) Activities still
using gstreamer 0.10. The 0.10 release will be disappearing sooner
rather than later (I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in
F-21/F-22 time frame). I would love to see us be able to remove the
dependency on two gst stacks, at the moment at least Clock, Speak,
Record and Memorise need to be converted from gstreamer-python / gst
0.10 to gst 1.0 with Introspection support, whether this requires
migration to gtk3 at the same time is unknown to me.

Peter