On 25.11.2016 22:22, wm4 wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:13:54 +0100 > Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On 25.11.2016 10:36, wm4 wrote: >>> I'd like to add that removing the ffserver support from the libs, and >>> all deprecated stuff it depends on, will make it actually easier to >>> readd ffserver in a cleaner way. It reduces the risk that the new >>> ffserver accidentally depends on mechanisms that were supposed to go >>> away. >> >> However, that can't be done before the next major bump. > > I contest this too. The ffm muxer/demuxer does not affect ABI and has > no use outside of ffserver.
Removing it would break ffserver completely, so it shouldn't be done without a major bump, in particular if ffserver gets removed. Also you don't know if it has uses outside of ffserver. >>> Also, the promise was that developers would pick up ffserver again and >>> update it. This hasn't really happened - instead it weirdly looks like >>> the ffserver faction is stalling for time. Maybe the interest to keep >>> it alive isn't that high after all. >> >> To me it looks more like they simply lack the time to work on it. > > Plenty of time was granted. Several years more than Libav did. As far as I recall ffserver wasn't proposed for removal at the last major bump. Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
