[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 396779] Preset interface for elements

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------- Comment #67 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2008-03-12 16:14 UTC -------
> GKeyfile could be used, but would ev. lead to ugly keys being used:
> http://www.buzztard.org/index.php/Preset_handling_interface#formats

I don't find the GKeyFile format unbearably ugly to be honest. Also, what's the
problem with XML? You say 'bad: xml dependency', but for short files it should
be perfectly ok to just use GMarkupParser, no? The only reason we don't use it
for the registry is that the registry is very large and libxml2 is much faster.


> Regarding the GValue transforms. Probably not:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-Generic-values.html#id2715246

Could you expand on this (or update the link)?  I'm not sure I see the problem
here.  We already have gst_value_serialize() and gst_value_deserialize() which
we use for basically the same purpose.  It would seem to me it would be best to
make those handle the necessary transforms if they don't already, better than
to basically re-implement them.

In fact, I wonder if it wouldn't even be possible to use GstStructure
serialisation/deserialisation here, possibly in combination with GKeyFile.


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