On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 11:52:29AM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote: > Quoting Andrew Sayers (2024-07-02 11:08:39) > > An inattentive user might not see the explanation at the top of this file. > > Paste the explanation to all the places they might see it. > > Duplication is bad, and the premise doesn't work anyway. Inattentive > users will happily ignore arbitrary amounts of text. In fact the more > text there is, the more of it they will ignore. > Meanwhile you make actual information harder to find for people who > actually bother to read.
That's a reasonable argument, but incompatible with your other one[1]. If users are inattentive and will ignore arbitrary amounts of text, the explanation needs to go in the one place they have to look (the macro name). [1] https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2024-July/330559.html _______________________________________________ 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".
