[OE-core] [yocto] GStreamer 0.10's future

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 08 May 2014 19:21:44 Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 05:57:54PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 May 2014 18:19:08 Martin Jansa wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 04:07:19PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 08 May 2014 15:48:40 Burton, Ross wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sorry for the cross-post but I want this to have a wide audience.
> > > > > 
> > > > > For the 1.7 release I want to move GStreamer 0.10 from oe-core into
> > > > > meta-multimedia, and ensure everything in oe-core has ported to
> > > > > GStreamer 1.x.  GStreamer 0.10 is considered dead upstream and is
> > > > > unmaintained so we don't need to be shipping both versions anymore.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Everyone in agreement?  Should I expect any hate mail over this?
> > > > 
> > > > +1
> > > > 
> > > > The next question is does that mean for the "old" libav (which
> > > > gst-ffmpeg
> > > > depends upon), do we move that as well or drop it?
> > > 
> > > libav was migrated to oe-core quite recently and there is couple of
> > > recipes in meta-oe, meta-webserver depending on it/ffmpeg so moving to
> > > meta-multimedia wouldn't be very easy.
> > > 
> > > meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/sox/sox_14.4.0.bb:DEPENDS = "libpng
> > > libav libsndfile1"
> > > meta-multimedia/recipes-mediacentre/xbmc/xbmc_git.bb:DEPENDS = "libusb1
> > > libcec libplist expat yajl gperf-native libxmu fribidi mpeg2dec ffmpeg
> > > samba fontconfig curl python libass libmodplug libmicrohttpd wavpack
> > > libmms cmake-native libsdl-image libsdl-mixer virtual/egl mysql5
> > > sqlite3 libmms faad2 libcdio libpcre boost lzo enca avahi
> > > libsamplerate0
> > > libxinerama libxrandr libxtst bzip2 virtual/libsdl jasper zip-native
> > > zlib
> > > libtinyxml libmad"
> > > meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/musicpd/mpd_0.18.9.bb:DEPENDS =
> > > "alsa-lib libsamplerate0 libsndfile1 libvorbis libogg faad2 ffmpeg curl
> > > sqlite bzip2 pulseaudio" meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc.inc:
> > > faad2 ffmpeg flac libxpm libxinerama fluidsynth alsa-lib libdvdcss \
> > > 
> > > meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/nonworking/minidlna/minidlna_1.0.25.bb:DEPEND
> > > S =
> > > "flac libav jpeg sqlite3 libexif libogg libid3tag"
> > > meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_2.4.bb:PACKAGECONFIG ??= "eigen
> > > gtk
> > > jpeg libav png tiff v4l"
> > > meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gegl/gegl_0.2.0.bb:PACKAGECONFIG[avformat] =
> > > "--with-libavformat,--without-libavformat,libav"
> > > meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libpostproc/libpostproc_git.bb:DEPENDS =
> > > "libav"
> > > meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/mplayer2_git.bb:DEPENDS = "libvpx
> > > libdvdread libtheora virtual/libsdl ffmpeg xsp zlib \
> > > 
> > > meta-webserver/recipes-httpd/cherokee/cherokee_1.2.98.bb:PACKAGECONFIG[f
> > > fmpe g] = "--with-ffmpeg,--without-ffmpeg,libav"
> > > 
> > > But I would like to see migration to libav-9 which currently has
> > > negative
> > > D_P (mplayer2 already depends on 9*, but there are few recipes which
> > > fails
> > > with libav-9 too - see earlier world builds for list).
> > 
> > Yes, I'm just talking about libav 0.8 here - libav 9 would remain where it
> > is. That might still be problematic though given that their PN is the
> > same. I'm open to better suggestions, but I think we have to do
> > *something* here.
> Ah ok, I though you meant both versions.
> 
> Then I would rather drop 0.8 completely, otherwise it will be preferred
> even with negative D_P from meta-multimedia (YOCTO #2964) and we cannot
> expect people which happen to have meta-multimedia layer to know that
> they are expected to update P_V everytime libav is updated in oe-core.

Hmm. Perhaps a less intrusive solution then would be to create a completely 
separate meta-gstreamer0.10 layer for those that still really need it rather 
than putting it in meta-multimedia?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre