more registry fixesBRANCH-RELEASE-0_3_3-ROOT

Original commit message from CVS:
more registry fixes

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/DEVEL b/DEVEL
index 7d7e584ee..065f905a3 100644
--- a/DEVEL
+++ b/DEVEL
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 Development Notes and Random Wisdom
 
 * in libs like dparams, include the respective dparam headers with
-#include "dparams.h"
-instead of
-#include <gst/libs/control/dparams.h>
-because the latter will, if the include flags are set that way, first look
-for the installed headers instead of the newest one, which is in your source
-dir.
+  #include "dparams.h"
+  instead of
+  #include <gst/libs/control/dparams.h>
+  because the latter will, if the include flags are set that way, first look
+  for the installed headers instead of the newest one, which is in your source
+  dir.
+
+* When doing releases, please follow the guidelines in docs
diff --git a/gst/gstplugin.c b/gst/gstplugin.c
index 761d9239f..8bdd97a53 100644
--- a/gst/gstplugin.c
+++ b/gst/gstplugin.c
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ void
 _gst_plugin_initialize (void)
 {
   GList *gst_plugin_default_paths = NULL;
-  struct stat stat_buf;
 #ifndef GST_DISABLE_REGISTRY
   GstRegistryRead *gst_reg;
   gchar *gst_registry;
@@ -107,12 +106,19 @@ _gst_plugin_initialize (void)
   if (_gst_init_registry_write)
   {
     /* delete it before writing */
+    GST_INFO (GST_CAT_PLUGIN_LOADING, " Removing registry %s if it exists", gst_registry);
     unlink (gst_registry);
   }
-  if (stat (gst_registry, &stat_buf) == 0)
+  if (g_file_test (gst_registry, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS))
+  {
     doc = xmlParseFile (gst_registry);
+    GST_INFO (GST_CAT_PLUGIN_LOADING, " Reading registry from %s", gst_registry);
+  }
   else
+  {
+    GST_INFO (GST_CAT_PLUGIN_LOADING, " Not reading registry", gst_registry);
     doc = NULL;
+  }
 
   if (!doc || 
       !doc->xmlRootNode ||
diff --git a/gst/gstregistry.c b/gst/gstregistry.c
index 0b13f7fa9..5c67d8d5c 100644
--- a/gst/gstregistry.c
+++ b/gst/gstregistry.c
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ gst_registry_read_get ()
   {
     gchar *homedir = (gchar *) g_get_home_dir ();
     gst_reg->local_reg = g_strjoin ("/", homedir, LOCAL_REGISTRY_FILE, NULL);
+    if (g_file_test (gst_reg->local_reg, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS) == FALSE)
+    {
+      /* it does not exist, so don't read from it */
+      g_free (gst_reg->local_reg);
+    }
     gst_reg->global_reg = g_strdup (GLOBAL_REGISTRY_FILE);
   }
   return gst_reg;