Previously this was:
* iterating and referencing all plugin features in a GList
* *then* filtering out the ones we want
* Was doing that filtering by name (i.e. `strcmp`) instead of direct pointer
comparision
Instead, just create a private direct function to get the list of plugin
features
Uses 4 times less instructions ...
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/462>
By passing NULL to `g_signal_new` instead of a marshaller, GLib will
actually internally optimize the signal (if the marshaller is available
in GLib itself) by also setting the valist marshaller. This makes the
signal emission a bit more performant than the regular marshalling,
which still needs to box into `GValue` and call libffi in case of a
generic marshaller.
Note that for custom marshallers, one would use
`g_signal_set_va_marshaller()` with the valist marshaller instead.
If a function takes a floating reference parameter, it should also be
sinked in error cases. Otherwise the function behaves differently
between error and normal cases, which is impossible for bindings to
handle.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747990
Use g_object_new() instead which nowadays has a shortcut for the
no-properties check. It still does an extra GType check in the
function guard, but there's a pending patch to remove that
and it's hardly going to be a performance issue in practice,
even less so on a system that's compiled without run-time checks.
Alternative would be to move to the new g_object_new_properties()
with a fallback define for older glib versions, but it makes the
code look more unwieldy and doesn't seem worth it.
Fixes deprecation warnings when building against newer GLib versions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780903
Don't keep the registry locked whilst iterating over the plugins
or features with a filter function. This would deadlock if the
callback tried to access the registry from the function. Instead,
make a copy of the feature/plugin list and then filter it without
holding the registry lock. This is still considerably faster than
the alternative which would be to use a GstIterator.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756738
When running gst_registry_scan_plugin_file we were losing the
information about the registry being loaded and ended up adding the
plugin to the default registry which was not correct.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752662
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
