On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:19:16 +0100 Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Le tridi 13 frimaire, an CCXXIV, wm4 a écrit : > > So the goal is not to make it simple to write application code in a way > > that will be ABI compatible with newer FFmpeg minor releases? > > Stop being a caricature. > > The goal was to be ABI-compatible with the fork. Considering the hostile > stance of the fork at the time, this was not an easy task, obviously, and > causes a lot of drawbacks for developers, but it also meant that users could > just drop the FFmpeg libraries in /usr/local on their Debian or Gentoo and > have them replace the system's libav libraries for the better. Convenience > for the users has always been a major goal. Except that nobody actually did that. It was a thing that was tried once, went bust, but somehow it was kept. > > It is pretty easy for you to say, in hindsight, that it was useless, but it > is also very insulting for the people who were involved in the project at > the time. What is insulting is your behavior. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
