| Reviewing the registry (thomasvs, April 8 2002) |
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| * added a --gst-registry flag to the core which allows any gst app |
| to specify a different registry for loading/saving |
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| some stuff to do this went into gstreamer/gst/gstregistry.h |
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| * What location is used for writing ? (gst-register) |
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| - if specified (using --gst-registry) then use the specified location |
| - if not specified : |
| - it can be written in the global location, do it there |
| (which should be sysconfdir/gstreamer) and reg.xml |
| - if not writable, then try ~/.gstreamer/reg.xml |
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| * What location is used for reading ? (gst-whatever) |
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| - if specified (using --gst-registry) then use the specified location |
| - if not specified : |
| - right now : |
| if local exists, only read local |
| if not, read global |
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| - TODO: try reading GST_CONFIG_DIR/reg.xml first |
| then try reading ~/.gstreamer/reg.xml |
| AND replace every namespace collision with the new one |
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| * actual variables stuff (gstregistry.c) |
| - use gst_registry_write_get to get a GstRegistryWrite struct back |
| listing the right location of dir, file and tmp file |
| - use gst_registry_read_get to get a GstRegistryRead struct back |
| listing the path of global and local file to read |
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| * gst-register signals it's going to write to the registry (causing it to |
| be unlinked before the read in post_init ()) by setting a global variable, |
| _gst_init_write_registry |
