On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 09:25:23 -0400 compn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 14:48:25 +0200 > wm4 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:31:31 +0000 (UTC) > > Carl Eugen Hoyos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > wm4 <nfxjfg <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > > > > > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 22:23:21 +0200 > > > > Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos <at> ag.or.at> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Saturday 03 October 2015 10:05:29 pm wm4 wrote: > > > > > > Ping. Will push in 24 hours or so if nobody complains. > > > > > > > > > > The reason I am against this is just that users told me > > > > > repeatedly (in person) that they switched from the dark > > > > > side to FFmpeg because this (and possibly) other API > > > > > was removed there. > > > > > > > > As I've said several times, progress is not possible (or > > > > requires lots of wasted energy) if we don't drop obsolete > > > > APIs. > > > > > > What makes the old API "obsolete"? You? > > > > Existence of a better API that does everything the old API did. How is > > this so hard to understand? > > i think carl is asking whom did the deprecating in ffmpeg. > > carl: if this new api works with kodi and mplayer, whats the problem? > > are there still users of this api in 2015? yes or no? > > carl, do you use this api? what for? to test vdpau? > > carl is maintainer of this vdpau code, wm4. > its right there in MAINTAINERS. > > http://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing > 1.4 Development Policy > > 7. Do not commit changes to the build system (Makefiles, configure > script) which change behavior, defaults etc, without asking first. The > same applies to compiler warning fixes, trivial looking fixes and to > code maintained by other developers. We usually have a reason for doing > things the way we do. Send your changes as patches to the ffmpeg-devel > mailing list, and if the code maintainers say OK, you may commit. This > does not apply to files you wrote and/or maintain. > > specifically says do not change code without maintainers approval, > twice. > > feel free to change developer policy by rfc'ing a patch.... > > i'm just trying to help.
Looks like Great Leader violated the developer policy multiple times then. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
