Comment 26 for bug 1260788

(In reply to pbrobinson from comment #17)
> > 0.10 is still the default that comes on a lot of systems. Some systems don't
> > even have gstreamer 1.0 (like current Ubuntu LTS). For additional fun, if
> > some system libraries are using gstreamer 0.10, using gstreamer 1.0 is a
> > pile of bugs waiting to happen.
>
> gstreamer 0.10 is EOF upstream

Upstream doesn't choose what is on actual user systems, unfortunately.

> so 1.0 is highly desirable and has much
> better Mac/Windows support. Even with that they are both parallel
> installable without too many problems on Linux.

They are parallel installable, but not parallel linkable. So if the user system has, say, libcanberra-gstreamer installed, which is using gstreamer 0.10 on that system, and which we load for event sounds (and that gtk uses too, iirc), and we load gstreamer 1.0, "fun" bugs will show up.