Sebastian, can you pick commit 1b2b5aca97374c81320a5198bd92d491d7b24117 and put it upstream? Then I can provide a patch to remove Gst gir build support in gir-repository ;) It should be easy ;)

We should probably wait a little bit, until distributions starts to push stable releases of GStreamer with introspection support enabled.

I agree buut maenwhile the gir-repository build is broken if gst git is installed. So maybe the Gst gir build could be disabled if gstreamer >= 0.10.xx is found?

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> We should probably wait a little bit, until distributions starts to push stable
> releases of GStreamer with introspection support enabled.

Ubuntu Karmic and Debian/unstable already have GStreamer versions with introspection support. IMHO *now* is the correct time to remove them from gir-repository because now there are GStreamer releases with the introspection stuff.

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> Sebastian, can you pick commit 1b2b5aca97374c81320a5198bd92d491d7b24117 and put
> it upstream? Then I can provide a patch to remove Gst gir build support in
> gir-repository ;) It should be easy ;)

That's already included in gst-plugins-base (in my local branch). I'll push that (and many other annotations) after the new releases this week.

Best short term fix would be a ./configure --skip-build=GStreamer,Pango type option.  Best non-short term fix is to entirely kill gir-repository =)

gir-repository needs to autodetect the situation automatically and work out on the box without intervention on GNOME-2.26 and GNOME-2.28

 Fedora 11
 Fedora 12
 Ubuntu 9.04
 Ubuntu 9.10
 Etc.

Anything else is a big problem for us with gnome-shell development.

Would it be ok in configure.ac to check for gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.0 gstreamer-0.10 < 0.10.25 ? And same for -plugins-base?

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I just committed an identical patch, thanks anyway :-)

We should probably keep GStreamer around for another 12-18 months so people can upgrade. Hopefully distributions will eventually stop distributing gir-repository, but in practice I think we're stuck with it for quite a while.

I guess it's safe to assume that this is obsolete now, especially as GStreamer 0.10 is not maintained anymore and 1.0 had g-i integration from the beginning.

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