[webkit-dev] PSA: Migration plan to GStreamer 1.x

[Ryan Ware]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-dev-
> bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Simon Hausmann
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:10 AM
> To: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] PSA: Migration plan to GStreamer 1.x
> 
> On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 10:21:00 AM Philippe Normand wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This mail is mainly for the GTK, Qt and EFL port maintainers, I
> > decided to post here instead of cross-posting to three mailing lists
> > :)
> >
> > So there's been work to port the MediaPlayer and WebAudio GStreamer
> > backends to the new GStreamer 1.x APIs. At the moment you can choose
> > (well, for the GTK port at least) at build time if you want to use the
> > 0.10 or 1.x APIs.
> >
> > The issue is that GStreamer 0.10 is no longer actively maintained and
> > the GStreamer developers/maintainers entirely focus on GStreamer 1.x.
> >
> > Moreover we currently don't have the manpower to maintain the 2 code
> > paths in the WebKit/GStreamer platform layer. The GTK port buildbots
> > already switched to 1.0 last month and I encourage Qt and EFL to do
> > the same ASAP, at least for their buildbots.
> >
> > I'd like to propose we drop the GStreamer 0.10 support from WebKit
> > once the next stable branch of GStreamer is released, it will be 1.2,
> > scheduled somewhere around February.
> 
> Sounds good to me.

This will also be less problematic from a security perspective in the future
since it will be harder to get security updates for 0.10.

Ryan