[Bug 773463] core(debug): hard to distinguish related log at multi-instance env

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773463

--- Comment #10 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> ---
Instead of this "magic" debug category I would suggest a parameter to the
GST_DEBUG_OPTIONS env var.

I only quickly glanced at this patchset, but I'm not really sure whether I like
this approach. Not that I have a thought-through alternative proposal yet
though :)

I understand the feature request though and think it's a valid request that'd
be good to solve in some way.

I'm rambling here now, but something I've been thinking of is that it might be
easier to implement and more flexible in general if we simply relied on tools
(log viewers) to do some postprocessing to enable this kind of thing. We still
need to make that info available for tools of course. We could have global
sequence numbers for all objects and then simply refer to the objects by
number, and whenever their state changes we simply log that in reference to
their number. Also means we don't have to take that lock constantly everywhere
(which your patch also seems to do for the case where we want the old print
behaviour).

We have a similar/related problem in bug #761916 btw (similar in terms of what
an implementation needs to cater for).

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