On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajja...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Michael Niedermayer > <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:06:03PM -0400, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote: >> [...] >>> As for whether this is a faq or not is a matter of debate. >>> I am perfectly fine placing it elsewhere if that is what people want. >> >> please do, FFmpeg should not trash the terminal so this shuld not >> be a frequently asked question > > Well, in an ideal world FFmpeg should not, > but as examples indicate, it can indeed trash the terminal > (with or without the patchset). > > Nevertheless, I will move this to the wiki, > unless someone has a better idea for where it should go.
Now that I think of it, there is yet another alternative: note that terminal recovery is really the shell's responsibility in some cases. As such, if anything, this should belong in the shell's documentation and/or distribution documentation. We do not need to document this. If someone files a bogus bug report on this, or some user asks this question on IRC, forums, mailing list, etc we could take that as a signal for us to document this. My own rationale for using the faq is that it is more widely read as compared to the wiki, thus potentially benefiting more users/devs. Michael's concerns seem to essentially boil down to the negative PR effect of keeping this on the faq. I could add a sentence clarifying that this is not a bug in ffmpeg, mitigating some of those negative effects. > >> >> [...] >> -- >> Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB >> >> I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know >> nothing. -- Socrates >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ffmpeg-devel mailing list >> ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org >> http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel >> _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
