[gst-devel] some things

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> * use different registries for different user
> * use a default system-wide registry which can be overridden for a
> specific user (I sure don't want to be root for every time I test a
> GStreamer)
> * use a different, explicitly specified registry if necessary

yup. all planned but not yet implemented.

> Something I want to be able to do is to build gst-plugins against an
> uninstalled or installed core easily too.  I know it's possible but I want
> to decide against which it is doing it in order to test build stuff.  I'm
> slowly thinking I need to go into UML to test all of the deps possible.
> Advice is welcomed ;)

you're crazy, UML? but it is easy to build against uninstalled core.
what i'm not so sure would be easy is having both at the same time,
seems like linking could get flaky. but if it could work, you would do
it with pkg-config.

cheers,

wingo