[gst-devel] videomixer2 ?

[Bert Douglas]

That sounds like good software engineering to me.
Do not break things that are working.

-- Bert Douglas

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 00:05 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>
> > my question as always (eq queue2, playbin2 etc) then why not replace
> > the old one?
>
> Because we'd like to keep the old elements working the way they used to,
> for backwards-compatibility and all that. This is often quite hard to do
> when you rewrite/redesign something from scratch. And even where it's
> possible, it might result in confusing API and/or confusing and hard to
> maintain code (some properties/signals/messages only applying to that
> mode, others only to that mode, others to both etc.). Much easier for
> everyone involved to just leave the old elements alone and do new ones
> with different behaviour and API.
>
>  Cheers
>   -Tim
>
>
>
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