It's almost pointless and makes little sense as subclass might
want to modify refcount of the object or so. And all subclasses
are already casting them to non-const version as well.
In a general sense, we need to avoid passing refcounted object
with const qualifier.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1238>
boolean return value is not sufficient for representing the reason
of error in most cases. For instance, any errors around new_sequence()
would mean negotiation error, not just *ERROR*.
And some subclasses will allocate buffer/memory/surface on new_picture()
but it could be failed because of expected error, likely flushing
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1019>
boolean return value is not sufficient for representing the reason
of error in most cases. For instance, any errors around new_sequence()
would mean negotiation error, not just *ERROR*.
And some subclasses will allocate buffer/memory/surface on new_picture()
but it could be failed because of expected error, likely flushing
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1019>