[gst-devel] core reworkings

[Stefan Kost]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Less than a week left.  Can you feel the heat ?
> 
> Here's a list of things I'm about to do to GStreamer core:
> 
> - move all additional libs (net, base, ...) in gstreamer/gst/* to
> libs/gst, together with dataprotocol and such
you mean gstreamer/libs/gst? isn't dataprotocol already there.

> - move all plugins (elements, indexers) out of gstreamer/gst and into,
> say, gstreamer/plugins; have them built after the gst/ subdir
sounds good. leaves only check and parse in there.

> - make a tests/ or testsuite/ dir, and group all things that fit under
> it under there: move check/ under it, add interactive tests in a
> separate dir, examples in a separate dir, and doc-extracted examples in
> a separate dir, all underneath that
I'd rather leave examples as examples. they are not run as part of make check
> - put queue in libgstelements.so
> - remove -compprep and -complete
whats the ratonale for that. Are the broken too much?
> 
> In the coming week, I have an urge to do some code cleanups, like
> "replace TABS with spaces" and "add consistent mode lines to keep TABS
> out".
> 
> If any of this offends you, let me know muy pronto...
> 
> Thomas
> 

Stefan