[Bug 743062] Various GstObject subclasses leak when created by bindings using g_object_new()

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743062
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | unspecified

--- Comment #2 from Christoph Reiter (lazka) <reiter.christoph at gmail.com> 2015-01-20 11:59:51 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> You realise we have added that because of g-i / bindings, not because we
> thought it was a good thing to do?

Sure. I'm just trying to analyze the current situation as detailed as possible
and find out what could be changed and with what effect.

> I think perhaps instead of randomly doing stuff depending on the g-i issue du
> jour, perhaps we should wait for the g-i / bindings people to write up some
> comprehensive design documentation that covers all the use cases we need (and
> doesn't require us to change ABI), and documents what bindings should do as
> well. So there's something authoritative to go on.

Imho you first need to know the use cases/problems, and this is one of them.
This might all be common knowledge for GStreamer developers but I couldn't find
anything about it.

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