On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 7:57 PM James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/2024 7:19 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > > Needless to say I support the plan of renaming the library so that it can > > be inline with the other libraries names, and the use of a separate > header > > since downstream applications will need to update a lot to use the new > > library (or the new apis in the existing library) and/or we could > provide a > > thin conversion layer when the new lib is finalized. > > I don't quite agree with renaming it. As Michael already pointed out, > the av prefix wouldn't fit a scaling library nor a resampling one, as > they only handle one or the other. > by that reasoning we should ban all subtitles from all the libraries av is a shorthand of multimedia and many people in the industry refer to ffmpeg libs as "libav*" so it feels a bit odd to push for preserving an alternative name > There's also the precedent of avresample, which was ultimately dropped > in favor of swresample, so trying to replace swscale with a new avscale > library will be both confusing and going against what was already > established. it's still 4 libraries vs 2... and swr/avr is shrouded in bad history that is not worth bringing up I'd understand opposing a rename just for the sake of renaming, but this is essentially a new library, i see no value in preserving the old naming scheme, if not making downstream life worse :x -- Vittorio _______________________________________________ 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".
