GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 513182
[PLUGIN-MOVE] move metadata plugin to -good
Last modified: 2009-08-10 16:48:08 UTC
All files into http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/ext/metadata/ obs: please remove the empty folder gst-plugins-bad/ext/metadata/test, it has been moved to http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tests/icles/ which contains metadata_editor.c and metadata_editor.glade
I think it's a bit too early to consider moving this to -good given how new and complex the code base is and that it's only a few days until the plugin-move window for the upcoming -good/-bad release opens. I'd even suggest making these elements all have a rank of RANK_NONE until after the upcoming release.
About the tags: - the enumerations should be changed to a registered enum GType - the GPS longitude/latitude tags should be changed to floats, which is much easier and common, and less error prone than the DMS format
... the whole interface should still be renamed
Regarding the name of the element, one thing that could easily (really easy) be done is to create separate elements for each type of metadata/file we want to handle. So, separate Elements quite similar to gstmetadatademux.c and to gstmetadatamux.c could be create with proper name. (That's why most of the smartness in in gstbasemetadata.c and metadata/file specific elements)
This will definitely not move until all unit tests pass. Having more debugging statements would help also.
I believe the consensus was that this all should really work differently, so WONTFIXing this plugin-move bug for time being, since it's not going to happen any time soon.