On 21 Jan 2023, at 22:36, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 05:51:34PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote: >> Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2023-01-20 03:05:09) >>> PS: iam not sure i fully understood the reason behind why versions should be >>> set to "wrong" values during some period, so as always i might be missing >>> something >> >> The reason is that after the major bump, the API and ABI are declared to >> be unstable for some period, so people can freely >> - break ABI, e.g. by reordering struct members >> - modify API added during the instability period in an arbitrary way >> without a new major bump for every such change, that would be normally >> required. >> >> My concern is that the instability period is quite long and there is >> very little indication for our users that they cannot depend on the >> ABI/API being stable. So I'm proposing to introduce some mechanism to >> make this more visible for our callers. >> >> Alternatively, we could just not have an instability period at all. > > Does anyone plan to use the next bumps instability period for anything ? > If so, i assume theres a good reason why it cannot be done without such > period easily? > > If theres noone -> easy solution, we need no instability period ATM. > If theres someone, i would ask that someone how long it needs to be > and write that down in APIchanges. Maybe as in "API is unstable becuase > of X until 2033-11-11 >
I would like to make av_dict_get return a const AVDictionaryEntry, just like av_dict_iterate already does. > a new #define LIBAVCODEC_UNSTABLE could be added but izt feels a bit > overengeneered. This whole thing is more a exception, isnt it? > > thx > > [...] > -- > Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB > > While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there > will be no State. -- Vladimir Lenin > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
