[gst-devel] How do I kow what makes a plugin "bad'?

Edward Hervey bilboed at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 09:08:18 CEST 2010


On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:00 -0700, Wes Miller wrote:
> I was just looking at the docs for camerabin and notice it's in
> gst-plugins-bad.  It shows as LGPL, so that's goodness.  What makes it bad?

  gst-plugins-bad is where all new plugins first go. Call it
purgatory :) People can then request a plugin-move for it to be moved to
-good or -ugly (depending on license/patent issues).

   Edward

> 
> same question in general.  How do you know what's bad in an element?
> 
> Wes 






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