On 09.08.2015 18:19, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun > <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 09.08.2015 12:57, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: >>> Yeah, I'm with this. Andreas, the correct fix is to update applications, >>> even if that means vendor-specific patches in Debian. These are >>> exceptionally trivial patches that you can generate using fairly trivial >>> sed scripting. >> >> The problem is not that creating patches for these two API changes was >> difficult, but that these affect the majority of API users. >> >>> The same goes for other easily scriptable changes. These APIs are gone and >>> I don't want them back. >> >> What is your problem with keeping the trivial compatibility layers for >> another year? > > Some of these changes have been delayed before already, so what should > make us believe now that in a year you won't be here again with a long > list of projects that still didn't update, asking for more time yet > again?
Someone, who wants to get rid of these deprecated APIs, is going to send them patches. A year should be enough time for most projects to make a new release including those patches. Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
