Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of mmcco

Timestamp:

Jun 11, 2015, 8:26:55 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

mmcco

Comment:

Initial separate v/v lib section

mmcco

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 The GStreamer library is the basis of Pidgin's voice/video support.
 
-There are two major GStreamer versions: 0.1 and 1.0. GStreamer 0.1 has been [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-announce/2013-March/000273.html officially unmaintained since March 2013] - more than two years ago. However, package and port maintainers may still patch bugs.
+There are two major GStreamer versions: 0.1 and 1.0. Pidgin currently supports both, but you should use GStreamer 1.0. The minor version available in Ubuntu 15.04's packages is currently new enough to compile Pidgin 3.0, so just install from there.
 
 === "Help!" ===
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 Also, if you come across an obstacle on your platform of choice, please report it to the relevant package maintainer with as much useful information as possible. Keeping major dependencies' packages stable and up-to-date will allow us to continue improving voice/video, desktop environment integration, etc.
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+== Voice/video library concerns ==
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+As of June 2015, Pidgin supports both GStreamer 0.1 and GStreamer 1.0. GStreamer 0.1 has been [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-announce/2013-March/000273.html officially unmaintained since March 2013] - more than two years ago. However, package and port maintainers may still patch bugs.