[gst-devel] library functions not returning

[in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de]

Quoting David Schleef <ds at schleef.org>:

> > So along Thomas' lines, is there any way
> > we could modify the cdparanoia plugin so it might be more aware of
> > errors like this ?
> 
> Yes, but imo it would be smarter to add such capability to GStreamer,
> not individual elements.
> 
I don't think the correct solution to work around a problem in a library is to 
fix it anywhere else, ever.
GStreamer (at least not the core) is not a framework for debugging or working 
around broken libraries. So I'd be very reluctant to include code that messes 
with signals and does stuff to stacks.
And it is low level and we suck a lot at low level programming especially wrt 
portability. For proof witness our cothreads.

I wouldn't mind adding a "wrapbin" plugin or something, I just don't think it 
should be part of the core. 


Benjamin


PS: Are there debugging libs tat are capable of doing this already?