On 30.07.2015 17:38, Anton Khirnov wrote: > Quoting Andreas Cadhalpun (2015-07-30 17:05:12) >> Ideally you should make sure that patches for all of them are available, >> before these APIs get removed. >> >> Considering how widespread the use of FF_API_PIX_FMT and FF_API_AVFRAME_LAVC >> still is, it might make sense to delay their removal. > > Past experience indicates that if we wanted to wait for all (or even > most) of the downstreams to adapt before breaking compatiblity, we'd > have to wait forever.
I think that keeping some of these APIs "forever" is much less of a problem then breaking the majority of reverse dependencies. > Most of then, unfortunately, have to be forced into adopting the new APIs. Have you tried sending them patches before breaking compatibility? Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
