Support for (nullable) was added to G-I at the same time as nullable
return values. Previous versions of G-I will not mark return values as
nullable, even when an (allow-none) annotation is present, so it is
not necessary to add (allow-none) annotations for compatibility with
older versions of G-I.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730957
They are very confusing for people, and more often than not
also just not very accurate. Seeing 'last reviewed: 2005' in
your docs is not very confidence-inspiring. Let's just remove
those comments.
Use the technique that is now done in GTK+ so that the plugins do not have
to be installed in c:\gstreamer\lib\<debug>\gstreamer-$(GSTApiVersion),
but can be installed in
<parent_folder_of_gstreamer_main_dll>\lib\<debug>\gstreamer-$(GSTApiVersion),
or as per g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module() allows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679115
Not so useful: just adds/reads stuff from an internal GList without
actually doing anything with those paths, so remove for now:
gst_registry_add_path
gst_registry_get_path_list
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608841
Improve parallel installability in setups like jhbuild by
providing versioned variants of some environment variables:
GST_REGISTRY_1_0
GST_PLUGIN_PATH_1_0
GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0
GST_PLUGIN_SCANNER_1_0
will now be checked before checking the unversioned ones.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679407
It's only used internally, most other users will likely
want to use gst_registry_find_plugin() directly instead
(and if not, they can easily walk the list and doing the
strcmp themselves).
Remove GST_MAJORMINOR and replace it by GST_API_VERSION
Also set GST_VERSION_{MAJOR,MINOR,MICRO,NANO} explicitely
now.
All versions are at 1.0.0 now for the release soon but
API/ABI can still change until the 1.0.0 release.
Next release versions until 1.0.0 will be 0.10.9X and
these will be release candidates. GST_VERSION_* will
nonetheless stay at 1.0.0.0.
__registry_reuse_plugin_scanner is only defined when
GST_DISABLE_REGISTRY is not defined.
gstregistry.c: In function 'gst_registry_scan_plugin_file':
gstregistry.c:1131:8: error: '__registry_reuse_plugin_scanner' undeclared (first use in this function)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667284
It's only used internally anyway and the helper struct
has namespace issues.
API: deprecated gst_plugin_feature_type_name_filter()
API: deprecated GstTypeNameData
This will make sure we spawn a new plugin scanner helper for each plugin
to be introspected, which helps with making sure we don't load too many
shared objects (libs, plugins) at the same time on systems where there
is a hard limit like on Android.
A better version might re-use the scanner for up to N times, though
it's not clear whether that would actually improve things dramatically.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662091
Returning a newly allocated string makes no sense. It's unexpected for a
getter, and also this behaves differently in 0.10, so it would make future
merges harder.
Except for these two places here in core which were updated for the new
semantic, the return value is getting leaked all over the place.
The feature name is not supposed to change over time anyway. In order to enforce
this parentize features to the registry and make the feature->name pointing to
GstObject:name. In 0.11 we could consider of removing the feature->name variable
(FIXME comment added).
Fixes: #459466
When a plugin file no longer exists, e.g. because it's been removed or
renamed, don't remove all features in the registry based on the *name*
of the plugin they belong to, but only remove those who actually belong
to that particular plugin (object/pointer).
This fixes issues of plugin features disappearing when a plugin .so file
is renamed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604094
