[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] burger gst-plugins-good: gst-plugins-good/ gst-plugins-good/gst/rtp/

[Wim Taymans]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:22 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > As I understand them, our stability guidelines for -good and -base (not
> > > sure if they are written down somewhere) would preclude removing
> > > existing element factories. Was there a rtpg711pay before? Is there one
> > > now? If an element factory was removed, then we probably have a problem.
> > Well, there was an rtpg711pay/depay and now it has been separated into
> > 4 elements. Therefore the old ones removed.
> > 
> > I am sorry but I did not know about this guideline. Also I had taken
> > advice on #gstreamer and no one mentioned it.
> 
> Well, it's just like other projects - if glib started removing functions
> people would complain.  Also, I'm pretty sure I explained why the
> renaming and unifying needed to be done before 0.10 - precisely because
> after 0.10's release, you can't make changes like that.
> 
> Could you make sure that whatever element factories got removed are put
> back ?
> 
If the element was simply renamed but has the same features, you could
register the same element twice with different names.

Wim

> We can't do releases of good until this is done.
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
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