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

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------- Comment #27 from Stefan Kost (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev)  2009-01-06 08:34 UTC -------
I am more unhappy about the word 'dependency' than 'external' as its external
(non-gstreamer) files that impact the feature set of the plugin.

I agree that _FEATURE_ is ambigous. I looked at synonyms for feature:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/feature
but haven't found something good.

The extension is for meta-plugins. Plugins where the offered features are
dependend on external modules. The external stuff is a soft dependency - the
plugin is there in any way, it just offers more of less.

What about:
GST_PLUGIN_FUNCTIONALITY_xxx
GST_PLUGIN_SOFT_DEPENDENCY_xxx
GST_PLUGIN_EXTRA_xxx
GST_PLUGIN_EXTENSION_xxx
GST_PLUGIN_EXTERNAL_xxx
GST_PLUGIN_MODULE_xxx

Anyway, if there are some +1 for GST_PLUGIN_DEPENDENCY_xxx, thats fine for me
too then.


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