Hello, On 08/09/2015 08:51 PM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Frank Lömker <floem...@gmx.de> wrote: >> And that's even the easy part. A lot of people don't update there >> distribution every six months, often it's years old. If you try to >> support all these distributions you end up with lot's and lot's of >> #ifdefery. With FFmpeg and it's continuous API changes that gets >> quite fast quite complex and hard. And adding a copy of FFmpeg and >> linking statically to every small tool is really not a solution. >> > > Old distribution, old ffmpeg, but wanting new software? > Is the linux world so jaded that everyone just ignores this conflict, > instead of expecting users to update their system if they want brand > new apps to work on it?
I find that quite normal. Why should it be required to update the complete system, a perfectly running one, just to use a small tool you need for a special task? There is a reason for e.g. even the ABI, in addition to API, stability of the kernel for user code or the libc ABI/API stability. That's especially important for out of distribution software, and there is a lot of that. Bye, -- Frank Loemker _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
