[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Implement a cmdutils functions for listing available elements

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2009-11-22 18:41:04 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> On date Friday 2009-11-20 19:18:28 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:06:04AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > On date Thursday 2009-11-19 17:38:14 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:59:17PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > no, your patch does something quite different.
> > > > anyway, ive implemented it myself, this took less time than reviewing your
> > > > patches
> > > 
> > > I still continue to prefer the -list elts approach, but then I don't
> > > care so much and your approach looks still acceptable.
> > 
> > just for the record:
> > you could have changed the existing code to "-list elts approach"
> > with a patch very similar to mine which would have been much clearer
> > and i would proably have accepted it. (now its of course no longer
> > needed)
> 
> Maybe we're still in time to change it, as I stated opt_list() is more
> compact and can be extended without to add other options (we still
> have enough of them).
> 
> Also it avoids the show_protocol() mess and ripristinate the -formats
> behavior (this is IMO a good feature, as that option is there by ages
> so it's better to remove it than to change its behavior).
> 
> Yes this patch breaks again the interface, but since those options are
> new then it should do little harm.
> 
> I'll provide a patch fixing docs as well if this approach is
> acceptable.
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