On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 07:57:29AM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:32 AM, Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:21:48PM -0300, James Almer wrote: > > > On 6/29/2016 9:27 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > > > Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > >> For the record: there was some discussion related to this on IRC. > > > > > > > > Would you mind adding some relevant points here? > > > > I was under the impression that this mailing list > > > > is the main place for FFmpeg patch discussions, no? > > > > > > > > Carl Eugen > > > > > > [18:37:47] <@BBB> we should recommend that people upgrade to 3.1 > > tools-and-libs-at-the-same-time > > > [18:45:42] <jamrial> and i agree with BBB, instead of removing the > > recommendation, just make it clear that tools and libraries should ideally > > be updated at the same time and not mixed > > > [18:48:11] <michaelni> jamrial, can you post a patch that changes thre > > recomandition to all libs/tools or changes the release notes ? > > > [18:50:13] <jamrial> michaelni: alright > > > > > > > > I'm fine with this patch or the one i sent. I'm not going to block > > either. > > > > ok, i will wait until 24h have passed from the point of patch > > submission, and in absence of objections on the ML, apply it > > we should IMO pull this recomandition at least until 3.1.1 > > Iam also happy if others apply it or another solution sooner > > > I prefer James' approach (recommending to update tools+libs together). I > have two reasons: > A) pulling a recommendation to update will be conceived as negative press. > Negative press is always bad. Media can always blow things out of > proportion and all sort of crap will follow. I prefer to just keep this > simple.
do you realize that a distro upgrading to 3.1 will cause basically almost every application that uses our libs to break ? so far there are reports of kodi, mpv, chromium, ffplay and mlt breaking. (breaking in the sense of not working at all IIRC) [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Its not that you shouldnt use gotos but rather that you should write readable code and code with gotos often but not always is less readable
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