[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] metadata compatibility layer (part2)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:21:07AM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hi attached patch is the second (and final) part of the metadata
> compatibility layer. It adds compatibility in the other way around.
> When a demuxer read metadata and stores it with av_metadata_set(),
> it automatically fill the old API metadata fields, so that a
> software using the old API is still able to get metadata from
> demuxers using the new API.
> 
> It is slightly ugly, especially the AVFormatContext pointer stored
> in the AVMetadata struct, but that's the cleanest way I found.
> As the struct is not exposed in public API and all of this is
> just a temporary transition code, I think it is acceptable.

I think this code is too ugly, i was already very unhappy about the
last of these compatibility patches but this one is just too much.
I do not want this or anything similar in a file i have to maintain.
Id much rather bump the major version several times.

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