Brian Cameron wrote: > If the plugins have different filenames or are intalled to different > subdirectories of $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins (as you suggest above with > "uname -p"), then GStreamer does support the same $HOME directory having > plugins for different architectures. > > However, codeina unfortunately does not yet take advantage of this feature. > Since their x86 and Sparc plugins have the same name, you can only install > one of them at a time (unless a user were to rename them or install them > to arch-specific subdirs by hand). > > In talking with the codeina developers, they had not considered this use > case before. > > I filed a bug against codeina about this issue, so it can get addressed.
IMO this is not a bug it is a fundamental architectural issue that must be resolved. Placing binaries into users home dirs requires that cross architecture issues must be resolved. Is if there is a way to have codeina install into the system wide GStreamer plugin directory. -- Darren J Moffat
