gstreamer stuff naming scheme

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 12/23/06, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> 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-*.

Thanks for a perfect answer!