[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] */version.h: Add note/recommandition about bumping major

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Wed Aug 19 11:56:30 CEST 2015


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:52:39PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 18.08.2015 12:28, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > From: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > 
> > If preferred, i can also apply this after the bump, in case its felt that
> > this would cause too much delay/work
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > ---
> >  libavcodec/version.h  |    4 ++++
> >  libavformat/version.h |    5 +++++
> >  libavutil/version.h   |    4 ++++
> >  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libavcodec/version.h b/libavcodec/version.h
> > index 1b37a9e..cf9c924 100644
> > --- a/libavcodec/version.h
> > +++ b/libavcodec/version.h
> > @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
> >   * FF_API_* defines may be placed below to indicate public API that will be
> >   * dropped at a future version bump. The defines themselves are not part of
> >   * the public API and may change, break or disappear at any time.
> > + *
> > + * @note, when bumping the major version it is recommandeded to manually
> > + * disable each FF_API_* in its own commit instead of disabling them all
> > + * at once through the bump. This improves the git bissect-ability of the change.
> >   */
> 
> I think that is a good idea,


> but instead of disabling the FF_API_* defines
> they should be removed together with the code guarded by them.
> Otherwise chances are that the old, disabled code will never get removed,
> see e.g. FF_API_OLD_GRAPH_PARSE.

that would increase the workload for bumping and also make it harder
to test for regressions caused by FF_API* in the days/week following
the bump. so my feeling is toward that keeping disabling and removing
seperate would be better

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