[gst-devel] Decoupled elements and schedulers

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:24:08PM +0200, Martin Soto wrote:
> I see two ways out of this. Either you forbid an element with a loop to
> also have chains and gets, or, at least, you make clear that the chains
> and gets won't be run if there's a loop.

This is already the case.  Some of the core element have both loop
and chain functions, but only as a legacy.  No real element would
ever bother, because it leads to code paths that are nearly
impossible to test, thus leading to bugs that only users will ever
see.



dave...