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The Full Story on GStreamer
JigSaw writes "Gnome's Christian Schaller has written an intro/status document on GStreamer, the next generation multimedia development framework for Unix. Christian explains what it is, why it is important, its use in both the desktop and server side, its use on embedded Linux, Gnome and even KDE. He also discusses its current competition and the plans for the future."
*That* is pretty big news?
Good Lord, if that isn't a sign of desparation/the pathetic state of OSS in general, I don't know what is. "Look, students are doing a class project, maybe that will be as good as such and such commercial software".
OSS is great; linux, xemacs, gcc, etc, are magnificent tools that I use daily. I'm flaming about the general state of OSS, the mounds of junk on sourceforge, etc, not the exceptions that are really great.
But 7 students doing a project gets you excited like that. Sheesh.
And don't bother to give me a semon about how somehow, in some convoluted way, I don't "get" it, and that really, this is the essence of what it is about.
I wish those guys the best of luck with their project, but clueless fan-monkeys like yourself are just a waste of space.
OK, I'm a bit overstating, and installing gtk+ on a system is not generally very such a big pb.
However, when exactly have you installed glib without the full gtk+ ? Sorry, but glib, gobject, gdk and gtk ARE a common package (and developed as is : same developers, same version numbers, same CVS) in most if not all distros.
Ergo, a dependency on glib is, for now and practically speaking, a dependency on GTK+. Thus, on a widget toolkit.
GTK+ is not built on glib and gobject : they belong to GTK+.
Libxml2 can and is installed without gnome.
Glib isn't. Glib is part of GTK+.
Would you say the same with pango ?