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authorTim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.net>2013-04-20 15:39:39 +0100
committerTim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.net>2013-04-22 23:47:15 +0100
commitf720ddb5e5491a0a713c2b84189838018edaaf2e (patch)
tree1465d40a4239771e9ddefde6bedcb0b37eac17f8
parent87198b4c6b9b1ebe6effb317c76ba46ccaf6aabe (diff)
downloadgstreamer-common-f720ddb5e5491a0a713c2b84189838018edaaf2e.tar.gz
update README and MAINTAINERS
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698209
-rw-r--r--MAINTAINERS3
-rw-r--r--README36
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e27f34a..558ddff 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ of people, including, but not limited to:
Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@gmail.com>
David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>
Tim-Philipp Müller <tim centricular net>
+ Sebastian Dröge <slomo circular-chaos org>
Maintainer-related issues should be addressed to:
- gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+ gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
diff --git a/README b/README
index 554653d..f0ad183 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ We track bugs in GNOME's bugzilla; see the website for details.
You can join us on IRC - #gstreamer on irc.freenode.org
-GStreamer 0.10 series
----------------------
+GStreamer 1.0 series
+--------------------
Starring
@@ -135,13 +135,14 @@ PLATFORMS
---------
- Linux is of course fully supported
-- FreeBSD is reported to work; other BSD's should work too
+- FreeBSD is reported to work; other BSDs should work too
- Solaris is reported to work; a specific sunaudiosink plugin has been written
-- MacOSX is reported to work; specific audio and video sinks have been written
-- Windows support is experimental but improving. Output sinks have been
- written but are not yet included in the code. We support
+- MacOSX works, binary 1.x packages can be built using the cerbero build tool
+- Windows works; binary 1.x packages can be built using the cerbero build tool
- MSys/MinGW builds
- - Microsoft Visual Studio 6 builds (see win32/README.txt)
+ - Microsoft Visual Studio builds are not yet available or supported
+- Android works, binary 1.x packages can be built using the cerbero build tool
+- iOS works
INSTALLING FROM PACKAGES
------------------------
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ COMPILING FROM SOURCE TARBALLS
COMPILING FROM GIT
------------------
-When building from git sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate
+When building from git sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate
the build system files.
You will need a set of additional tools typical for building from git,
@@ -208,10 +209,7 @@ them. You can also specify specific versions of automake and autoconf with
Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help
-autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - you just need to separate them
-from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
-prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
-some build scripts like that.
+autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure
When you have done this once, you can use autoregen.sh to re-autogen with
the last passed options as a handy shortcut. Use it.
@@ -219,9 +217,17 @@ the last passed options as a handy shortcut. Use it.
After the autogen.sh stage, you can follow the directions listed in
"COMPILING FROM SOURCE"
-You can also run your whole git stack uninstalled. The script in
-the gstreamer module /scripts/gst-uninstalled) is helpful in setting
-up your environment for this.
+You can also run your whole git stack uninstalled in your home directory,
+so that you can quickly test changes without affecting your system setup or
+interfering with GStreamer installed from packages. Many GStreamer developers
+use an uninstalled setup for their work.
+
+There is a 'create-uninstalled-setup.sh' script in
+
+ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/scripts/
+
+to easily create an uninstalled setup from scratch.
+
PLUG-IN DEPENDENCIES AND LICENSES
---------------------------------