[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 491501] Reduce usage of base_init in GstElement subclasses

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------- Comment #20 from Sebastian Dröge  2008-01-27 06:23 UTC -------
Tim believes we can ignore this broken behaviour.

Unfortunately I found another instance of it:
GstDVDDemux inherits GstMPEGDemux and GstMPEGDemux adds a "sink" pad template
in class_init while GstDVDDemux adds a "sink" template in base_init.

Comment in GstMPEGDemux: /* we have our own sink pad template, but don't use it
in subclasses */

Of course this worked before as explained above but was always disallowed by
the docs. I don't see an easy way around this unfortunately in this element.

What about allowing subclasses to overwrite existing pad templates? Is there
any reason why we generally don't want this?


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