Bug#426694: GStreamer GnomeVFS plugin fails to recognize extra protocols

[Loïc Minier]

On Thu, May 31, 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> @GStreamer maintainers: is there a clean way to re-rerun the
> registration process in a postinst script?

 No; the registry is now per-user.  I don't think changing the timestamp
 would trigger a re-read; it seems the registry keeps the file size of
 the plugin as well as what looks like a checksum:
 <filename>/home/lool/jhbuild-gnome-2.18/prefix/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcoreelements.so</filename>
 <size>465834</size>
 <m32p>1172764917</m32p>
 <version>0.10.11.1</version>

 Basically, it's a cache, and it's currently not built around the
 assumption that the "uri_protocol"s supported by a plugin can change
 without the plugin changing.

 While it's an interesting problem WRT to updating this list, it's only
 a real life problem with http support which has been bugging us in
 plenty of apps since it's not supported by default anymore.  I think it
 makes sense to revert this change and move back the http module to
 the default list of gnome-vfs-2.0 modules.

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Loïc Minier