[arch-general] gstreamer naming

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

2009/6/4 Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:43 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've a question - why are gstreamer packages named gstreamer0.10 and
>> not gstreamer? I can see it also in Debian, but I don't see any sense
>> in appending version to the package name.
>>
>> Lukas "stativ"
>
> This is because we used to have gstreamer (0.8) and gstreamer0.10
> (0.10). Applications working with 0.8 don't work with 0.10, and the
> other way around. After a year or so most apps have been ported to 0.10,
> so we decided to remove the old packages. I decided to keep this
> versioned name, becauase in the near future we'll have the same with
> gstreamer 0.12, which will be parallel installable with 0.10 also.
>
>

Thank you for nice explanation.