no good reason to require glib 1.3.15 so back to 1.3.12 put version checking for...

[platform/upstream/gstreamer.git] / README

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-This is gnome-streamer, a framework for streaming media in GNOME.  The
+This is GStreamer, a framework for streaming media.  The
 fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate
 Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia.  It's based on plug-ins
 that will provide the various codec and other functionality.  The
 interface hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple)
 to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and
 release the source.
+
+
+Developer note:  When building from CVS sources, you will need to run
+autogen.sh to generate the build system files.
+
+GStreamer is cutting-edge stuff.  To be a CVS developer, you need 
+cutting-edge tools.
+
+ATM, most of us have at least these versions :
+
+* autoconf     2.52    (NOT 2.52d)
+* automake     1.5
+* libtool      1.4
+* pkg-config    0.8.0
+
+autogen.sh will check for these versions and complain if you don't have 
+them.