[gst-devel] multifilesink and proposal to merge it with filesink

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,

> Hi Ronald,
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:45, Zaheer Abbas Merali wrote:
> > > I just committed multifilesink into gst-plugins.
> > 
> > several developers commented on the overload of plugins in gst-plugins
> > being added recently. Could you consider keeping this plugin private to
> > your application since it's mostly using application-specific
> > interfaces?

I think the element makes a lot of sense.  So whatever else is discussed
it should find its way somewhere in our set of plugins.

There are two other discussions that are worthwhile.

One is - does it make sense to integrate it with filesink ?

The other is - how do we deal with the "overload" of plugins in
gst-plugins.

While it is true some people have commented on the latter being a
problem, it is also true that others have commented on that long before
as well.  I don't think it's correct to say that a plugin like this
shouldn't go in and should be kept app-specific just because there are
people who think that we have too many already.

The discussion on what plugins should be in our gst-plugins tarball
should be done for all plugins.  Not putting one in because we're all
fed up with how long it takes to autogen.sh or that we have a bunch of
ill-maintained plugins is the wrong way to do it.

Thomas

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