[Bug 790123] Importing Gst from gi.repository fails with gst_uninstalled setup

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790123

--- Comment #9 from Mathieu Duponchelle <mduponchelle1 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Florent Thiéry from comment #8)
> Basically my failing system was missing the gobject-introspection package.
> Installing it does make it work.
> 
> 1) how come can i use gstreamer from python without the
> gobject-introspection package (outside of the uninstalled environment)? My
> app uses gi and gstreamer, and works without gobject-introspection being
> installed (but it has python-gobject and gst-python)
> 

If you have the gir, typelib files and pygobject, then you can use these
without needing gobject-introspection, which is only a build time dependency
for these files

> 2) should not meson complain louder about missing gobject-introspection ?

Possibly :)

> Even drop python being built ?

Well the python overrides only depend on the pygobject headers, if you have
those
then it can build its C extensions

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