From 6e2db6374e349b8f923bca0f4a66d419ef2c76a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Tim-Philipp=20M=C3=BCller?= Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 19:40:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] registry: ignore old libgstvalve.so and libgstselector.so plugins to minimize upgrade pain Ignore plugins which have been moved into coreelements, so it's still possible to just upgrade GStreamer core without having to upgrade the whole stack. --- gst/gstregistry.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/gst/gstregistry.c b/gst/gstregistry.c index 80cb721362..27e41daf50 100644 --- a/gst/gstregistry.c +++ b/gst/gstregistry.c @@ -1161,6 +1161,17 @@ gst_registry_scan_path_level (GstRegistryScanContext * context, GST_LOG_OBJECT (context->registry, "file %s looks like a possible module", filename); + /* try to avoid unnecessary plugin-move pain */ + if (g_str_has_prefix (dirent, "libgstvalve") || + g_str_has_prefix (dirent, "libgstselector")) { + GST_WARNING_OBJECT (context->registry, "ignoring old plugin %s which " + "has been merged into the corelements plugin", filename); + /* Plugin will be removed from cache after the scan completes if it + * is still marked 'cached' */ + g_free (filename); + continue; + } + /* plug-ins are considered unique by basename; if the given name * was already seen by the registry, we ignore it */ plugin = gst_registry_lookup_bn (context->registry, dirent);