[Ffmpeg-devel] About swscale

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:38:37AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:20:04PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:57:27PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > Roberto Togni <r_togni at tiscali.it> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:23:02 +0200
> > > > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> libswscale revisions interleaved in proper historical order then yes,
> > > >> current revision numbers will change.  Dunno if this will create
> > > >> problems, though.
> > > >
> > > > It will create problem to every repository referencing an exact ffmpeg
> > > > version with external property.
> > > 
> > > And who does that?  I wouldn't think it could be all that many, given
> > > that we've only been running svn for less than a month.
> > 
> > Do we have a decision about this issue?
> 
> yes we do
> i as maintainer of ffmpeg and sws decided as follows:
> 
> sws will stay in mplayer for now and shall be checked out as external
> in the ffmpeg project, this is the solution which splits the issues so
> that we can individually discuss and decide on them, the "use sws in ffmpeg"
> stuff can be applied without having to disscuss the weakly related 
> repository structure first
> we can always move sws into ffmpeg or its own repository later, theres
> no need to hold the sws patches up ...

OK, it's good that the libswscale patches do get finally merged one way
or the other.  I think I'll create a scratch repo with libswscale moved
to FFmpeg that will demonstrate what I have in mind.  The discussion of
the issue appears to be somewhat theoretical and confused to me.

Diego