[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] restoring binary compatibility with ffmpeg 0.5

[Jai Menon]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at> writes:
>
>> > http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue1715
>>
>> If you fix 1715 and it requires bumping ABI (which almost certainly it would)
>> then iam ok with bumping ABI (with a patch for review first)
>>
>> But note the code that would fix 1715 is not in place, simply bumping the
>> ABI isnt going to fix it
>> you would have to get rid of
>> grep MAX_STREAMS libav*/*.h
>> first
>
> Then why did you ok the patch adding the work-around in place (that makes it imo
> pretty unlikely somebody will add dynamic allocation)?
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/103319/focus=103348

Really? The limit was quite low all that while and nobody worked on
dynamic allocation. Hence the workaround. People are still free to
work on it and I hope they do since it is of course the "correct"
thing to do. But even if that doesn't happen, the workaround will imho
ensure that most common use cases work.

-- 
Jai Menon