[OE-core] Questions about Orc and GStreamer

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Carlos,

On Monday 30 September 2013 10:07:37 Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> Yes, thats Orc. It is part of meta-oe , but really should be in OE-core.
> I think there was a discussion about this in OE-core months ago, and I
> didn't see an opinion against it.
> Can the GStreamer upgrade be included in the dora branch after release?
> I remember seeing package upgrades in the dylan happening after its
> release. In other words, package upgrades aren't just restricted to the
> master branch, correct?

The answer is we generally don't do upgrades on stable branches unless there 
is a very good reason (for example, a security bug where it is more practical 
to just upgrade to a new version for the recipe instead of trying to backport 
patches to the existing version).

Specifically regarding gstreamer 1.2, I'm not too keen on the idea of upgrading 
it in a stable branch - I've been told that there have been backwards-
incompatible changes since 1.0; if that is the case it wouldn't really be 
appropriate. FWIW, the option as always is open to add the new version as a 
separate layer on top of dylan.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre