[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: swscaler integration

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:41:58PM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:01:35AM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >>>
> >>Wouldn't it be logical to make the 'release' before such a big 
> >>change/addition occurs ?
> >
> >well, you should have volunteered sooner now it will be quite hard
> >to finish it before libavfilter
> >
> >how long will you need to finish testing and making a release (see 
> >the ML for a list of whats needed before the release)
> >iam willing to delay libavfilter by max 48 hours can you do the 
> >release within that time, if no it will have to wait until after 
> >libavfilter
> >or the most terrible we release with a half finished libavfilter
> 
> Why are general comments turned into personal attacks ? Did I do 
> something wrong ? And where is the answer to my question ? Or you 
> prefer to start yet another flamewar ?

FFmpeg releases are a recurring topic.  Every so often somebody comes
and asks for a release or flat out demands releases more often.
Unfortunately the intersection of the people demanding releases and
those offering help for releases is empty.

So I can understand that Michael reacts in a somewhat short-tempered way
whenever the topic comes up for the 554th time...

To answer your question: The thing holding up the release are the
ffserver regression tests.  IIRC they are working now except for
PPC+AltiVec and maybe AMD64.  The latter seems to be compiler-dependent.

If you want to see the release happening sooner rather than later, help
us find and fix this problem.  Otherwise please be patient.

Diego