Yeah and those people don't matter. Anyways, this mailing list is a disaster.
-------- Original Message -------- From: Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel <[email protected]> Sent: January 24, 2026 11:06:28 AM EST To: [email protected] Cc: Timo Rothenpieler <[email protected]> Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] Re: Consider using CMake. On 24.01.2026 03:57, swurl via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > "MSVC works fine! Just go to MSYS2 first" > > That isn't "working", that's a horrible workaround. Not to mention this is a > nightmare to script or run in a CI environment. > > Again, *I have tried this and it isn't good.* It's very prone to breaking and > pretty much impossible to make any meaningful changes. Not to mention it > almost never works It works perfectly fine for me. > > Porting everything to any other build system without causing an endless > slew of regressions and dropping support for a ton of targets is virtually > impossible. > > Call me crazy but I don't think FFmpeg needs to support somebody's 2003 > toaster running a 200 MHz POWER4. Everything else is trivial to keep support > for, because *CMake literally runs everywhere.* See https:// > cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME.html. Just because you don't care about it doesn't mean other people also don't. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
