On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:33:07PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> > Having both for a year along each other will only waste people's time. Now
> > at the beginning of the release cycle is the time to make a decision,
> > not by dragging things into a year as of today. Picking one of the two
> > won't be any simpler in 12 months.
>
> I just fear that the decision making process will take long, especially
> if the TC has to get involved. (The libjpeg-turbo TC decision took 1 year.)
>
> Having ffmpeg in testing during this time would be nice, e.g. so that people
> using testing can easily compare them.
>
> Was that not what you meant with [1]:
> "It certainly possible to have them co-exist for a year or so"
Honestly at this point I don't believe we'll need a year to sort out whether
it'll be libav or ffmpeg.
I'll refrain from mentioning my personal preference for now, but IMO
one of the two is preferable in almost all aspects, so picking the lib for
stretch shouldn't take that long.
Cheers,
Moritz
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