[gst-devel] question re: debugging categories in libraries

[Benjamin Otte]

Quoting "David I. Lehn" <dlehn at vt.edu>:

> Speaking of --gst-debug-help.  Most of the standard entries have a
> description of "no description".  Are they supposed to say something
> more useful?
> 
Quoting the code (gstreamer/gst/gstinfo.c):
/* FIXME: add descriptions here */

If anybody knows what a category does, he's free to add a description there.

OTOH I wanted to get rid of the debugging categories in a central place and 
have each file have their own debugging categories in the long run, because 
this results in much saner categories. It makes no sense if code from 10 
different files clobers your categories...
I've been doing this in some places in the core already.

Benjamin