[Sugar-devel] shell-port status

[Simon Schampijer]

On 09/06/2012 02:42 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> The ported code does use GStreamer through introspection. So we will depend
>> on GStreamer 1.0 (old GStreamer does not have full introspection support).
>>
>> I just checked availability of GStreamer 1.0 in the distros. In Fedora it
>> has been built now [1] with the basic plugins. In Ubuntu the situation looks
>> good as well [1]. The upcoming „Quantal Quetzal“ will have GStreamer 1.0 and
>> there are PPAs for Precise Pangolin.
>
> The whole gammit of gst-plugins- base/good/bad-free are now in Fedora 18+/
>
>> Not sure what the situation is on other distributions. I hope they are in a
>> similar shape or will catch up soon.
>
> They will need to as it's a hard dependency for gnome 3.6 due this
> month. gst 1.0 final will apparently appear some time before the gnome
> 3.6 release. Ultimately that dep makes it perfect for us as the core
> packages should propagate through the distros quite quickly.
>
>> I think it is ok to move forward with this dependency, if I missed anything
>> important - please speak up.
>
> With the hard dep on gnome 3.6 and the fact that we will depend on
> other touch related things that we need being in 3.6 as well I think
> it's perfectly fine to require it. Ultimately if they don't have it
> they're also likely not going to have other things we need like
> minimum versions of gtk3 so that's going to be be worst of their
> problems.
>
> Peter

Thanks for the great feedback Peter. Indeed with all the other 
dependencies the GStreamer looks minor :)

Cheers,
    Simon