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

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------- Comment #25 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2008-12-27 16:38 UTC -------
> EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCY
> is not readyy dependencies. What about "EXTERNAL_FEATURE"

It is a dependency in the sense that the set of available gstreamer plugin
features, or the capabilities of gstreamer plugin features, depend on the
specified files/directories. This could be plugin files/directories, but also
config files, for example.

I don't think the term 'external feature' really makes things much clearer,
since we use 'feature' already for GstPluginFeatures, and those are usually not
external to the plugin. Also, it doesn't really sound like it would cover
config files to me.


> GST_PLUGIN_EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCY_FLAG_PATHS_ARE_DEFAULT_ONLY
> -> GST_PLUGIN_EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCY_FLAG_PATHS_AS_FALLBACK (not that good
> either)?

Admittedly the flag names are a bit hideous. A better name for the above must
be out there somewhere  .


> Also the G_STMT_START changes for the registry can be applied independently.

Done.


> Last question, do you have a patch for e.g. libvisual plugin to test it?

Yes, I'll attach them.


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