gstreamer stuff naming scheme

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:47:03 -0600, Andrew Pantyukhin  
<infofarmer at 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-*.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks!


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