[Bug 733187] integrating the tracer branch

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733187
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | 1.x

--- Comment #10 from Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) <ensonic at sonicpulse.de> 2014-10-04 16:52:59 UTC ---
Huh? I said several times, that using GstStructures for logging is not perfect
- as well as logging the tracing data to the debug log stream. I filed
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733188 to start reorganizing the
logging env vars, but that hasn't seen a lot of discussion.
Also right now the logging via structures is the main source of overhead.

Thibault, did you read this draft?
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ensonic/gstreamer/tree/docs/design/draft-tracing.txt?h=tracer

One thing I am wondering is where we should just have a structured log and make
the debug logging as special case.

Re your suggestion - the extra interface sounds cumbersome. The categories
sounds similar to the logging system.

Right now the logging is marked with TODO comments and I think we can figure
this in a 2nd run as this is not part of the API.

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