Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:57:45 -0500 From: "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gstreamer stuff naming scheme Message-ID: <b2203fed0612221357s4ac3fabaq4b559b42c94c12f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <op.tkzcd3lh9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <cb5206420612221147t586cb091i509a89c30633e450@mail.gmail.com> <op.tkzcd3lh9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On 12/22/06, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:47:03 -0600, Andrew Pantyukhin > <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm not questioning the subject, just wondering because > > I must settle on a naming scheme for libvisual. > > > > So my personal preference is the way they deal with > > databases, i.e. <db><ver>[-<ext>]. I wonder why you > > > > (a) preferred gstreamer-plugins-<plugin> to just > > gstreamer-<plugin>, or even the widely-used "gst" abbre- > > viation, like gst-<plugin> > > Because, they are under the gstreamer-plugins-* tarball. You can see we > have gstreamer-ffmpeg, because it's a offical name. As for the 'gst' isn't > clear when you search in the google, freshports and etc. The 'gstreamer' > is a real name. Fedora[1] and Gentoo packages have 'gstreamer-*'. > > [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/fedora/5/0.10/i386/gst/ > > > (b) placed <ver> at the very end instead of right after > > "gstreamer" > > Not sure what you mean? gstreamer<ver>-* (gstreamer010-*)? If you do, then > I kind of agree. Easier for us to search it. > > > (c) decided not to use versioning for 0.10, which will > > probably result in massive repocopies when the next > > version comes out. > > That one is what I would like to see change. We should have > gstreamer010-[...]. It's too late for now, we should be hold and wait > until next major version of gstreamer. I think, the next major release > should have gstreamer<ver>-* then repocopy gstreamer-* to gstreamer010-* > and delete gstreamer-*. I like the idea of using gstreamer<ver>-*, I originally wanted to do this for 0.10 but there was just a lack of help in moving everything and the whole update to 0.10 took an enormous amount of time. 0.12 (or what ever the next major version is) I think we should go with gstreamer<ver>-*. Michael > > Cheers, > Mezz > > > Thanks! > > > -- > mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org > http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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