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Bug 772431 - Doc is wrong about GST_PLUGIN_PATH being colon separated - it's semicolon on Windows.
Doc is wrong about GST_PLUGIN_PATH being colon separated - it's semicolon on ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gstreamer (core)
unspecified
Other Windows
: Normal minor
: 1.10.0
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-10-04 21:52 UTC by Matt E
Modified: 2016-10-31 14:33 UTC
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Description Matt E 2016-10-04 21:52:29 UTC 
On https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/gst-running.html it's claimed that GST_PLUGIN_PATH etc is a list separated by a colon. 

However, on windows it's actually a semicolon separated list as is evidenced by the code at https://github.com/GStreamer/gstreamer/blob/master/gst/gstregistry.c#L1621 which relies on G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S which is a semicolon on Windows.
Comment 1 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2016-10-05 09:38:50 UTC 
Do you want to provide a patch?
Comment 2 Tim-Philipp Müller 2016-10-10 10:00:47 UTC 
Guess not:

commit 6d0d350a94ba6b4e7775a8321bd2a29e889cbc21
Author: Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 10 10:59:26 2016 +0100

    docs: paths in env vars are separated by semicolons on windows
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772431