[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v4] lavr: deprecate the entire library

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje at gmail.com
Sat Dec 30 19:11:04 EET 2017


Hi,

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 30 December 2017 at 15:15, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:59:19 +0000
> > Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Deprecate the entire library. Merged years ago to provide compatibility
> > > with Libav, it remained unmaintained by the FFmpeg project and
> duplicated
> > > functionality provided by libswresample.
> > >
> > > In order to improve consistency and reduce attack surface, as well as
> to
> > ease
> > > burden on maintainers, it has been deprecated. Users of this library
> are
> > asked
> > > to migrate to libswresample, which, as well as providing more
> > functionality,
> > > is faster and has higher accuracy.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > Still against. I'm hoping both libraries can be merged in the future,
> > and removing it would work against this goal.
> > _______________________________________________
> > ffmpeg-devel mailing list
> > ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
> >
>
> The facts speak for themselves - libswresample is better in every way and
> there's nothing we want ported from libavresample. If you think otherwise -
> send a patch or at least structural critique of how libswresample could be
> improved. There's still 2 years until the code is removed and even then
> it'd still be in git, bitrotting as it currently does.
>
> I'm still intending to apply this patch in a few days.


I'm in favour of deprecating and eventually removing it. As Mike used to
say: you need to break eggs to make omelettes.

Ronald


More information about the ffmpeg-devel mailing list