gstreamer 1.0

It has been a while since I have last written here but I am not dead and I still somehow manage to contribute to Gentoo.

In the past weeks, I have been working on making Gnome 3.6 ready for inclusion in portage. It rapidly appeared that Gnome 3.6 would have to use both gstreamer 0.10 and gstreamer 1.0 however gstreamer team is badly understaffed and only Alexandre (tetromino) who is not even a gstreamer team member had tried to start bumping ebuilds to gstreamer 1.0.

But then Alexandre got busy and this development stalled a bit. After I finished bumping the overlay to Gnome 3.6.1, I took the challenge to rewrite the gstreamer eclasses to make them easier to use and understand. They were, in my opinion, quite scary with version checks everywhere and I think it is one of the reason that so few people wants to work in gstreamer team 🙂

If you do not follow gentoo-dev, most of the code moved to gst-plugins10.eclass which received some magic touches that basically makes 99% of the version dependant code go away. As an added bonus, the eclasses are now documented and support EAPI 1 to 5. EAPI 0 support got dropped because of missing slot operators which is really annoying right now with gstreamer.

So if you hit some gstreamer compilation problems in the last few days, please forgive me, upgrade road was a bit bumpy but, overall, it was not so bad. And now, I am happy to say that gstreamer 1.0 is in portage which clears the road for gnome 3.6 inclusion.

On a final note, I also continued Alexandre’s work of bumping last 0.10 releases and so we are up-to-date on that front as well.

Happy compiling !

4 thoughts on “gstreamer 1.0”

  1. Yeah, thanks for your work! Gstreamer is a great tool, and i can confirm the eclasses needed some love.

  2. +1 thank you for your work. I am no Gentoo developer, but just a regular user and I just want to say that I do appreciate your contribution into my favourite Linux distribution.

  3. Nice to read, that gentoo’s gnome team is alive, and things are going forward at least. I wish, I could join it one day.

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