[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mingw and temorary files

[Corey Hickey]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:36:42AM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
>> Ah, I didn't see those were the headers for installation -- I thought 
>> they were just general-purpose headers. Ok, I've removed that hunk.
> 
> I'm against this whole tempfile thing. Why doesn't xvid just use the
> user-configured name for a 2pass file if it needs one? Or is this used
> for something else?? There's been this assumption that a temp file is
> necessary with no explanation of why, and IMO it's extremely bad for a
> _codec_ to create files on disk, temporary or not, if not requested.

I can't really comment on that one way or another. All I know is:

(a) There are two places in the codebase where temporary files are 
created. One has a workaround for MinGW; the other doesn't.

(b) Compilation fails on MinGW because there is no workaround.

All I did was centralize the tempfile creation code, along with the 
workaround. Now, if it is possible to avoid tempfile creation 
altogether, then, sure, I'm all for it. I don't know how to do that, 
though, and somehow I wouldn't expect Michael to have written that in 
the first place if it weren't somehow necessary.

At the very least, this patch just makes an ugly situation a bit cleaner 
and more compatible.

-Corey