gobject-introspection in cerbero

[Mark Howell]

Greetings...

I'd like to be able to use GStreamer and related packages built with 
cerbero from Python. I'm thinking other folks out there would like to 
use the gobject bindings for Python and other languages. Currently 
introspection is disabled in the cerbero build recipes.

In my 1.2 sandbox I have a recipe now for gobject-introspection and have 
modified some gst* recipes to enable introspection and generate typelib 
files. I have modified some packages to find and incorporate typelib 
files for distribution. It is working for me in that I can build and run 
pipelines and gst-rtsp-server (with some other minor mods) in Python, on 
Linux (Precise).

It doesn't work on Windows yet; apparently there are some pieces or 
config missing in the Windows bootstrap configuration to enable building 
Python extensions. Introspection could be applicable to OS/X but I don't 
have a Mac to work with. I don't know whether introspection is of use on 
Android or iOS.

To offer patches (starting with just Linux, I expect), shall I open a 
GStreamer bug at bugzilla.gnome.org, or is there a better forum for 
cerbero mods?

Cheers,

Mark.