[gst-devel] plugins versioning info

[wrobell]

In my opinion, as in other projects (ecasound, xmms), plugins should have
no versioning info. What does it mean. When plugins are built then following
files are created (visual consequences):

    lib<plugin>.so
    lib<plugin>.la
    lib<plugin>.so.0.0.0
    lib<plugin>.so.0

When versioning info is disabled there should be only two files:

    lib<plugin>.so
    lib<plugin>.la
 

The solution is pretty simple.
In every plugin Makefile.am file we could add something like
(for example in ext/lame/Makefile.am):

    libgstlame_la_LDFLAGS = @GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS@

and in configure.ac of gst-plugins at line 243 let's add:

    GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS='-module -avoid-version'
    AC_SUBST(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS)

We can add -export-symbols-regex option to GST_PLUGINS_LDFLAGS
just for case (as in xmms project) to minimize exported symbols
(is this really needed?), i.e.:

GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS='-module -avoid-version -export-symbols-regex "regexsymbol-gst.3f"'

I do not know how this regex should look like
and I have no time to check every plugin
so if there is somebody who could comment on it...

    wrobell <wrobell at ite.pl>