[oe] GStreamer 0.10's future

[Neuer User]

Am 08.05.2014 17:54, schrieb Burton, Ross:
> On 8 May 2014 15:48, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> So the catch here is that Qt4 currently depends on GStreamer 0.10.
> 
Yes, it does, as long as you need QtMultimedia. Same applies to Qt5.
There was a discussion on the Qt mailing list about moving to
gstreamer1.0, but this seems to be rather some time in the future was my
impression.

> Can someone who doesn't come out in a rash when looking at C++ code
> spend two minutes to tell if me Qt4 supports GStreamer 1.0 (unlikely)
> and whether we can make GStreamer 0.10 support a build-time
> configuration and simply disable it in oe-core.
> 
> Ross
>