Hi, On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 December 2017 at 15:15, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:59:19 +0000 > > Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Deprecate the entire library. Merged years ago to provide compatibility > > > with Libav, it remained unmaintained by the FFmpeg project and > duplicated > > > functionality provided by libswresample. > > > > > > In order to improve consistency and reduce attack surface, as well as > to > > ease > > > burden on maintainers, it has been deprecated. Users of this library > are > > asked > > > to migrate to libswresample, which, as well as providing more > > functionality, > > > is faster and has higher accuracy. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnu...@gmail.com> > > > --- > > > > Still against. I'm hoping both libraries can be merged in the future, > > and removing it would work against this goal. > > _______________________________________________ > > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > > > The facts speak for themselves - libswresample is better in every way and > there's nothing we want ported from libavresample. If you think otherwise - > send a patch or at least structural critique of how libswresample could be > improved. There's still 2 years until the code is removed and even then > it'd still be in git, bitrotting as it currently does. > > I'm still intending to apply this patch in a few days. I'm in favour of deprecating and eventually removing it. As Mike used to say: you need to break eggs to make omelettes. Ronald _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
