On 6/29/2016 7:50 PM, Timo Rothenpieler wrote: >>> While it's true that all fields after it are not public API/ABI, a lot >>> of software seems to misuse it, so to avoid too much trouble for now, >>> this should be fixed. >> >> How do you expect library users to start using the API correctly if every >> time they do something wrong we are the ones that rush to break our code >> just to adapt to their mistakes? > > During an actual major bump, where such breakage is expected. > A lot of stuff gets it wrong, and it is indeed confusing, so putting all > blame on API users seems wrong to me. Specially as this issue will block > distributions from adapting 3.1.
How? Just like they are updating to 3.1, they can update to the new versions of said library users with their api usage fixed. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
