[gst-devel] Re: Refcount eating (copy, borked your email the first time)

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:05:24PM +0200, Andy Wingo wrote:
> I am concerned about the registry API, because sometimes when you call a
> function it eats your refcount, and sometimes not.
> 
> I suggest we change the API so it never eats your refcount, like other
> GStreamer functions (except pad_push, which probably shouldn't eat your
> refcount either). That makes it much more clear for calling code to know
> how to ref.

I was going to bring this up myself.  Eating the refcount is annoying,
but it was the natural progression from the 0.8 functions.



dave...

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