[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3] lavd/sdl2: add sdl alias

Josh de Kock josh at itanimul.li
Sun Sep 25 16:51:41 EEST 2016


On 25/09/2016 14:50, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2016-09-25 15:48 GMT+02:00 Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>:
>> On 25/09/2016 14:43, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>>
>>> 2016-09-25 15:40 GMT+02:00 Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>:
>>>>
>>>> On 25/09/2016 14:38, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>>
>>>>> This is missing the important change to
>>>>> the help output.
>>>>>
>>>> These changes are only to not break current scripts,
>>>> users should use --disable-sdl2.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>> This makes no sense, we don't use version
>>> information for other libraries.
>>>
>> Other libraries don't change their name, unfortunately
>> SDL did, so we have to reflect that change.
>
> Isn't it much kinder to our users if the change is
> completely transparent for them?
>

For users, nothing will change. Everything will still work as it did.

--
Josh


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