[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/3] lavc: remove Libav ABI compat hacks

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Sat Sep 5 20:00:20 CEST 2015


On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 19:48:17 +0200
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le nonidi 19 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ronald S. Bultje a écrit :
> > For something important like this, we'd better have continuous (not
> > one-off, or "it worked for me on this one file 6 months ago") tests that
> > ensure it works for real in practice. Did we ever have such tests?
> 
> I do not think we ever had, and it would have been a good idea indeed. A
> probably valid testing procedure would be to run FATE from a libav tree
> compiled as shared library with LD_LIBRARY_PATH loading ffmpeg's library.
> 
> But setting up automated tests is only second to making a DECISION about ABI
> compatibility.

This feature was never used. Why do you want it now? To make my life
harder?


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