The unversioned tool wrappers are confusing and annoying for packagers,
users and developers alike. A gst-launch pipeline that works in 0.10
will likely not work in 0.11 (e.g. because elements or properties get
renamed, or syntax changes). The unversioned tools also yield useless
results when used with gdb or valgrind. Packagers need to co-ordinate
the packaging of all major versions to make sure there are no conflicts
when both try to install the same files. When two major versions are
in use (e.g. 0.10 and 0.11/1.0), it may be unclear (when looking at
things on IRC/pastebin/mailing list etc.) which version is actually
being used when there are unversioned wrappers. For all these reasons,
it seems best to just remove them for now.
People should just query the registry themselves or write a small
python script if they need this functionality (which is likely
less work than parsing the XML that this script outputs, and I'm
not aware of anything using the xml2text xsl either).
Remove the android/ top dir
Fixe the Makefile.am to be androgenized
To build gstreamer for android we are now using androgenizer which generates the needed Android.mk files.
Androgenizer can be found here: http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/derek/androgenizer.git
Pipeline serialisation to and from XML is horribly broken for all
but the most simple use cases, and will likely never be fixed.
Make sure everyone playing around with these tools is aware of
this, to avoid frustration. See countless bug reports in bugzilla.
Fixes bug #622685.
Use foo_LDADD instead of foo_LDFLAGS to specify the libraries to link to.
This should make sure arguments are passed to the linker in the right
order. See #615697.
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* tools/Makefile.am:
* tools/gst-launch.1.in:
Don't create a customised man page based on the host architecture,
describe the default registry path generically. That way the man
page is the same for all architectures and packagers have one
multilib issue less to deal with. Fixes#434926.
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* tools/Makefile.am:
* tools/gst-inspect.c: (main):
* tools/gst-launch.c: (main):
* tools/gst-xmlinspect.c: (main):
* tools/tools.h:
Add back --version command line option (#340460).
* tools/gst-typefind.c: (have_type_handler), (typefind_file), (main):
Add --version option and use GOption for argument parsing; refactor a
bit; accept directories as arguments and recurse into them; lastly,
print a decent error message when things go wrong.
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* tools/Makefile.am:
* tools/gst-md5sum.1.in:
* tools/gst-md5sum.c:
Remove gst-md5sum and man page (the md5sink element
required was removed ages ago)
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* configure.ac:
* gst/Makefile.am:
* gst/gst.c:
* gst/gstplugin.h:
* gst/gstregistry.h:
* tests/benchmarks/complexity.c:
* tests/benchmarks/mass-elements.c:
* tests/check/Makefile.am:
* tools/Makefile.am:
* tools/gst-inspect.c:
* tools/gst-xmlinspect.c:
various fixes to make
--disable-nls --disable-registry --disable-loadsave --disable-parse --disable-gst-debug
work and get the core .so down to 360444 bytes after stripping
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* check/Makefile.am:
* check/generic/states.c:
* gst/Makefile.am:
* gst/gst.c:
* gst/gst.h:
* gst/gst_private.h:
* gst/gstelementfactory.c:
* gst/gstindex.c:
* gst/gstinfo.c:
* gst/gstplugin.c:
* gst/gstplugin.h:
* gst/gstpluginfeature.c:
* gst/gstpluginfeature.h:
* gst/gstregistry.c:
* gst/gstregistry.h:
* gst/gstregistrypool.c: remove
* gst/gstregistrypool.h: remove
* gst/gsttypefind.c:
* gst/gsttypefindfactory.c:
* gst/gsturi.c:
* tools/Makefile.am:
* tools/gst-compprep.c:
* tools/gst-inspect.c:
* tools/gst-register.c: remove
* tools/gst-xmlinspect.c:
Registry rewrite. Changes registry from being a file created
by a tool into a simple cache file created automatically by
libgstreamer. Removed gst-register (because it's no longer
needed). Remove registry pools, because we only have one
registry implementation (XML). Fix up other subsystems as
necessary.
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Move man pages from %.1 to %.1.in, and add a rule to make .1 files
from .1.in, replacing program names with their versioned equivalent.
Handles nroff escape code for - (\-).
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gst-xmlinspect dumps the plugin info to an xml file
xml2text.xsl performs an xsl transform on the xml to generate output
similar to gst-inspect
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- Add more --disable options
- fix makefiles to only compile non-disabled features
- some compile fixes.
- removed extratypes, added gsturitype
- make get/set clock on a bin overridable
- some portability fixes for GUINT64
- separate pools from gstregistry.[ch] into gstregistrypool.[ch]
- make gstobject size fixed, even if we disabled load/save
- don't use 'new' as a variable as it is not a valib C++ variable
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link gst-inspect to libgstcontrol so that -inspect will show what dparams are available. I think it is ok to link helper libraries like libgstcontrol to the apps in tools/.
