# gst-plugin-version-helper [](https://crates.io/crates/gst-plugin-version-helper) [](https://docs.rs/gst-plugin-version-helper) Extracts release for [GStreamer](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org) plugin metadata See the [documentation](https://docs.rs/gst-plugin-version-helper) for details. This function is supposed to be used as follows in the `build.rs` of a crate that implements a plugin: ```rust,ignore gst_plugin_version_helper::info(); ``` Inside `lib.rs` of the plugin, the information provided by `info` are usable as follows: ```rust,ignore gst::plugin_define!( the_plugin_name, env!("CARGO_PKG_DESCRIPTION"), plugin_init, concat!(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), "-", env!("COMMIT_ID")), "The Plugin's License", env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), env!("CARGO_PKG_REPOSITORY"), env!("BUILD_REL_DATE") ); ``` ## LICENSE `gst-plugin-version-helper` is licensed under the MIT license ([LICENSE](LICENSE) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). ## Contribution Any kinds of contributions are welcome as a pull request. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in `gst-plugin-version-helper` by you shall be licensed under the MIT license as above, without any additional terms or conditions.