Quoting the commit introducing `GstPipeWireCore`:
```
Make all sources in the same process with the same fd share the
connection to the server. This makes it possible to set the same
fd on multiple sources/sinks and have them all use the same
connection, like when capturing multiple monitors from screencast
with the portal.
```
Do the same for `GstPipeWireDeviceProvider`, so it can share a
connection with device sinks as well. This will be needed for fd based
connections introduced in the next commit.
Further more it allows some cleanups.
1: 70652d1a37
Use target-object=<serial/name> instead of path=<id> for specifying
sink/src targets. Deprecate path= argument.
Change device provider to preferably expose serials instead of ids.
The gstdeviceprovider segfaults when listing the available devices,
because it the pointer to GList * is initialized with NULL instead of
the GList * itself. Don't use a pointer, but use the GList * directly.
Make the thread_loop alloc its own loop by default to simplify
some core. Add extra new_full method to pass a custom pw_loop.
Make other loop implementations ready to support custom loops
if we want that later.
The proxy API is the one that we would like to expose for applications
and the other API is used internally when implementing modules or
factories.
The current pw_core object is really a context for all objects so
name it that way. It also makes it possible to rename pw_core_proxy
to pw_proxy later.
The pw_remote object is really a wrapper around the pw_core_proxy.
The events it emits are also available in the core proxy and are
generally awkward to use.
With some clever new pw_core_proxy_* methods and a pw_core_connect
to create the core_proxy, we can convert all code away from pw_remote.
This is a first step in this conversion, using the pw_remote behind
the scenes. It leaks into some places because it really needs to become
its own struct in a next step.
Do not use dynamic types anymore. The reason is that it's difficult:
- to maintain a shared type database over a network.
- the extra overhead when translating between processes and for
maintaining the translation tables.
- race conditions in translating in RT-threads, this is a problem
because we want to make event streams.
We now have simple enums with types and extension points for all
types. This is also nicer to use in general.
We don't need the mapper anymore or pass strings around as types.
There is a parallel type info system to get more info about ids and
enums and their hierarchy. It can also be used for debugging.
The listeners are generally useful in spa, move it there and rename
to hooks. Implement loop hooks with it.
Fix some cleanup issues in stream and remote
Remove signals.
Rename callbacks -> events, use listeners to listen for events.
Callbacks are still used in spa for things you can listen to only
once.
Fix docs
Add some more versions to interfaces
Make types for the various proxy object + inline methods that does type
checking and create proxys etc.
Set owner client of client-nodes in the properties
Pass type to bind to in create-node
Don't place global id in the info structs
Improve registration of marshal functions
Pass more types around as ids
