Hi, On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceho...@ag.or.at> wrote:
> Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > I really don't understand why we don't spend > > > the time fixing real (user-reported) issues > > > instead of discussing how "clean" an api can > > > be... > > > > Because the two are not mutually exclusive. > > I still believe that time is the limiting factor > in FFmpeg development, your statement is not > completely true therefore (unfortunately!). The academic argument for clean code is that it speeds up development. Look up papers that try to make a case for it. My time has certainly been wasted many times because of broken deprecation symbols, convoluted code and other stuff. My time would have indeed been much better spent fixing user issues, but I couldn't, because our code is a complete mess. (As is everyone's code.) Ronald _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
