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

[Alexander Strasser]

Loren Merritt wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 07:36:15AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> I support the merge because "libavcore/" complicates tab-completion
> of "libavcodec/".
> No opinion on the technical side.

  lavfi is also bad in this regard :)

  Alexander