[gst-devel] GDP updates and questions

[Jan Schmidt]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:10 +0200, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:03 -0700, David Schleef wrote:
> > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:29:40PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > > Strictly speaking this would be an ABI change; however, nothing in
> > > GStreamer actually serializes events at the moment.  The question is,
> > > which of the following is preferred:
> > > 1) changing it without revving the GDP major/minor version
> > > 2) changing it, revving the major/minor, thus making it so older core
> > > cannot use GDP with newer core processes
> > > 3) changing it, revving, and implementing fallback code for the older
> > > GDP version
> > 
> > I think what you actually mean is:
> > 
> > 1) changing it without revving the GDP major/minor version, thus making
> > it so older core communicating with newer core *breaks in non-intuitive
> > ways*.
> 
> Well, more specifically still, making it so that ALL ZERO of the
> applications using GDP event serialisation/deserialisation break in
> non-intuitive ways when they have different core versions on either
> side. 

... is also an argument for 2) 

What actually happens when an existing GDP application that doesn't know
about event serialisation receives a serialised event?

J.

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