[FFmpeg-devel] avutil/crc: avoid needless space wastage of hardcoded crc table

[wm4]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:19:16 +0100
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le tridi 13 frimaire, an CCXXIV, wm4 a écrit :
> > So the goal is not to make it simple to write application code in a way
> > that will be ABI compatible with newer FFmpeg minor releases?  
> 
> Stop being a caricature.
> 
> The goal was to be ABI-compatible with the fork. Considering the hostile
> stance of the fork at the time, this was not an easy task, obviously, and
> causes a lot of drawbacks for developers, but it also meant that users could
> just drop the FFmpeg libraries in /usr/local on their Debian or Gentoo and
> have them replace the system's libav libraries for the better. Convenience
> for the users has always been a major goal.

Except that nobody actually did that. It was a thing that was tried
once, went bust, but somehow it was kept.

> 
> It is pretty easy for you to say, in hindsight, that it was useless, but it
> is also very insulting for the people who were involved in the project at
> the time.

What is insulting is your behavior.