[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 350477] [Registry] Provide a way for plugins to delegate the 'changes' behaviour

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------- Comment #19 from Edward Hervey  2007-08-31 08:28 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #18)
> Oh right. Yes lets put it into the plugin struct. I definitely want it plugin
> global. Thats what I menat wit my last comment (that there wouldn't be 173
> times the info).

ok, was starting to get confused here :)

> 
> So this could look like:
> gst_plugin_set_external_dependency_info(plugin,
> "/usr/lib/ladspa:/usr/local/lib/ladspa",".so,.so2","LADSPA_PLUGIN_PATH",FLAG_NONE);
> 
> (yes *.so2 is nonsense). Dunno if it also make sense to have a flag that
> defines wheter the env-var that holds a path too would be prefered over the
> path, prepended or appened to the path.

  I don't really know what the flag would bring extra. Checking if
(plugin->externalpath == NULL) should be enough and bring the same
functionality.

> 
> The registry cache would need to carry a timestamp for each directory (or even
> each file?) in order to check for changes.
> 

For each file unfortunately. I can't see how we can get a fully working system
with only recording the timestamps of only directories (it might work on
unix/posix, but I doubt it'll  work on win32).


Tim : I don't think globbing would bring us anything extra, just checking the
extensions (as we already do to check for plugins using .so,.dll,.dynlib,...)
of the files should be enough.


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