[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Merge libavcore into libavutil

[Jean-Daniel Dupas]

Le 9 f?vr. 2011 ? 23:28, Alexander Strasser a ?crit :

> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:11:02AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> 2011/2/9 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
>>>> Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:
>>>>> It is pretty hopeless that other considerable projects will adopt
>>>>> libavutil alone in other projects. Projects that need small footprint
>>>>> are better off with more specialized libraries such as gnulib or rather
>>>>> just copy the necessary parts that they need. With this in mind, nobody
>>>>> is helped by having libavutil and libavcore split. In order to ease
>>>>> maintenance inside and around FFmpeg and to reduce confusion where to
>>>>> put common code, avcore's functionality is merged (back) to avutil.
>>>> 
>>>> OK
>>> 
>>> OK with me also.
>> 
>> Do people disagreeing get a say?
>> Also is there any specifc reason why it would ease maintenance (less
>> major version bumps or anything like that?).
>> I also don't think the reference to gnulib makes sense, I do not
>> see any significant overlap between gnulib and avutil (not even in
>> the goals, I don't have the impression that gnulib is especially
>> bloat-averse).
> 
>  Also it should be mentioned that copying the necessary parts is
> much less desirable and creates a way greater burden for projects
> using that approach. And maybe even worse, it just makes the statement
> for libavutil is only a utility lib for ffmpeg and there is no point
> in using it elsewhere (which is against the very thoughts of its
> creation).
> 

If someone want to use only one part of the library, he can create a static libavutil library, and the linker will take care of stripping unused modules automatically.


-- Jean-Daniel