[gst-devel] gst-editor

[in7y118 at studium.uni-hamburg.de]

Quoting David Schleef <ds at schleef.org>:

> Since no current developer has picked it up in several years, it
> seems reasonable that there isn't a need for it in the current
> developer community.  So it will likely be a new developer, if any,
> that starts working on it.
>
My experience is that developers heavily underestimate the benefit of  
debugging tools. Most people just use what there is, because everyone  
else uses it, too. Only when they've seen working debugging tools do  
they realize how nice they are. Were it not for some people  
implementing those tools, we would still be hunting invalid reads and  
writes with printf because everybody else does it this way, so it must  
be good enough.

I can tell you from my experience with rewriting the pipeline parser,  
implementing caps_to/from_string and reworking the debugging system,  
that people only believe in debugging tools when they see them work.


Cheers,
Benjamin