[Gstreamer-gstmm] Re: [gst-devel] GstObject API crufted?

[Murray.Cumming at Comneon.com]

> From: Benjamin Otte [mailto:in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de] 
> To: Martin Schulze
> > - There is a function gst_object_destroy() that forces the 
> destruction
> >    of the passed object. Is this intended to work at any time? For
> >    GstElement/GstPad? For other types? Is the parent notified about
> >    the destruction?
> >
> I think this is cruft left over from the glib/gtk 1.2 days. 
> After a little
> grepping it's only used in old examples and test. So I vote 
> for "remove
> it, we're properly refcounting".

If this is true then it would vastly simplify things for language bindings.
It would be really great.

Murray Cumming
murrayc at usa.net
www.murrayc.com