[meta-ti] [PATCH 5/6] gstreamer: bbappend to use TI-patched versions needed for gst-plugin-ducati

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 12 October 2012 18:36, Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.yocto at r-finger.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/12 00:00, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Well, given that all the client and plugin code both needs to be
>> explicitly ported from 0.10 to 1.0, I don't see the problem tbh.
>
> Keep in mind that we are not talking about desktop-like distros aspiring
> to support gazillions of packages of random provenance (because, as you
> well know, Linux is about choice!). We are talking about carefully
> crafted distros for specific HW configurations. IMO it is a poor policy
> to ship a device with two versions of anything on it, it just increases
> QA complexity.

Sure, and if code supports it, then sure.  But right now, in the
transitional phase, most clients don't support 1.0, and a fair few
plugins don't either.  Setting the preferred version to 1.0 would
basically preclude building an image altogether.

I can see the argument for sure, but I think it makes a lot of sense
-- it's no small change, from 0.10.0 seven years ago (!) -- and
there's precedent in, e.g. clutter-1.8.

I'm all for removing 0.10 when it's no longer useful, but that time is
definitely not now.

Cheers,
Daniel