[gst-devel] missing "--disable-index" option, in gstreamer-0.10.21

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Montag, den 01.12.2008, 18:40 +0530 schrieb Sameer Naik:
> Hi,
> I just realized that "--disable-index" compilation option (to disable
> indexing for seeking purposes) in on longer available in
> gstreamer-0.10.21, has it been removed from gstreamer? if so since
> when and why?

It has been removed intentionally, yes. The relevant changeset was:

> 2008-07-31  Sebastian Dröge  <sebastian.droege at collabora.co.uk>
> 
>         * configure.ac:
>         * docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
>         * docs/gst/gstreamer.types:
>         * docs/gst/gstreamer.types.in:
>         * gst/Makefile.am:
>         * gst/gst.c:
>         * gst/gstbin.c: (gst_bin_class_init), (gst_bin_set_index_func):
>         * gst/gstconfig.h.in:
>         * gst/gstelement.c: (gst_element_get_index):
>         * gst/gstregistrybinary.c: (gst_registry_binary_save_feature),
>         (gst_registry_binary_load_feature),
>         (gst_registry_binary_read_cache):
>         * gst/gstregistryxml.c: (load_feature),
>         (gst_registry_xml_read_cache), (gst_registry_xml_save_feature):
>         * plugins/Makefile.am:
>         * tools/gst-indent:
>         * tools/gst-inspect.c: (print_index_info), (print_element_list),
>         (print_plugin_features), (print_element_features):
>         * tools/gst-xmlinspect.c: (print_event_masks),
>         (print_element_info):
>         * win32/common/gstconfig.h:
>         Remove GST_DISABLE_(ENUMTYPES|INDEX|URI) everywhere.
> 
>         Disabling the indexers and URI handler code will only reduce the
>         required amount of memory by a very small amount but on the other hand
>         requires much more maintaince work. Apart from that many places of
>         code are broken when disabling them.
> 
>         Disabling the enum types doesn't reduce the required amount of memory
>         by more than a few bytes and makes it hard to fix bugs like #539772,
>         i.e. use the enums as GObject properties.
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