On 1/16/2015 12:47 AM, Stephen Hutchinson wrote: > There have been times I've run into issues > because a shared library FFmpeg was linked against somehow > got removed or was updated and broke compatibility.
[...] > Dynamic loading allows the main binary to still function > correctly if this occurs, with the issue only arising if the user > attempts to use the missing library, in which case the > methodology of doing dynamic loading allows for a graceful > exit rather than the program crashing. This is definitely wrong. An ABI break would still have the *exact* same issues as before, when the wrong library is loaded. In fact, it's worse, since it potentially ignores the soname. - Derek _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel