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@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ GStreamer, e.g. for writing GStreamer-based applications.
 
 For background and motivation, see the [announcement blogpost](https://coaxion.net/blog/2017/07/writing-gstreamer-applications-in-rust/).
 
-The bindings are autogenerated with [gir](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir/)
+The bindings (since 0.8.0) are autogenerated with [gir](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir/)
 based on the [GObject-Introspection](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection/)
-API metadata provided by the GStreamer project.
+API metadata provided by the GStreamer project. Older versions before 0.8.0 were manually
+written and the repository can be found [here](https://github.com/arturoc/gstreamer1.0-rs).
+The API of the two is incompatible.
 
 A crate for writing GStreamer plugins in Rust can be found here: https://github.com/sdroege/gst-plugin-rs