This can be used to store informational messages, errors or
warnings which can later be shown to the user in gst-inspect-1.0,
which can be useful for plugins that expose elements dynamically
based on external libraries or hardware capabilities.
Status messages can then provide an indication as to why a
plugin doesn't have any elements listed, for example.
Plus unit test to make sure code paths are exercised a little.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/3832>
check_version(1.23.1) would return TRUE for a git development version
like 1.23.0.1, which is quite confusing and somewhat unexpected.
We fixed this up in the version check macros already in !2501, so this
updates the run-time check accordingly as well.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/4513>
