On 27.11.2017 17:14, Pavel Koshevoy wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
Mironov, Mikhail (2017-11-27):
#1
policy: do not include external headers
goal: minimize maintenance efforts and increase stability of the project
action: remove NVidia headers
Add to the goal: avoid being complicit of free-riders on the Libre
software bandwagon.
That is unnecessarily un-diplomatic and will likely offend the
contributors from nvidia and amd.
Personally, I would prefer if the bundled external headers were
installed together with ffmpeg public headers (so nvenc/cuda/etc...
weren't simply private headers within ffmpeg). There are some nvenc
APIs I need to query hardware capabilities to avoid setting nvenc
codec parameters that would cause the codec to fail to initialize via
ffmpeg apis. Given that ffmpeg already includes the headers that
declare those APIs I've been able to use them without installing nvenc
SDK separately, but since they are private headers in the ffmpeg
source tree it feels dirty to do that.
Your use-case looks like an argument for moving the external headers
into some separate repository. Not that I personally care much about
bundling or not bundling. To me the more important question seems to be
whether to auto-enable the encoders/decoders that depend on the external
headers and libraries or not.
Regards,
Tobias
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