[Ffmpeg-devel] dependency tracking improvements

[Måns Rullgård]

Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:21:42 +0000
> M?ns Rullg?rd <mru at inprovide.com> wrote:
>
>> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:52:15AM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Here is a patch which further improve new Mans dependency tracking system.
>> >> It moves dependency information from configure to allcodecs.c/allformats.c.
>> >> Advantages are that it simplifies configure and that when you add a new
>> >> codec, you don't need to mess with configure. Just add a new line in
>> >> allcodecs.c and you're done.
>> >> Opinions ?
>> >> Can I commit this ?
>> >
>> > Putting that info in a comment sounds very fragile to me.  This way
>> > compilation might fail if somebody changes a comment ...
>> 
>> I've never liked the idea of putting essential information in comments
>> either.  I've seen such things go horribly wrong.
>> 
>> I wouldn't mind moving the dependency information to a separate file
>> though, if people don't like the idea of having it embedded in the
>> configure script.
>
> Adding a new file wouldn't be very nice.
> My goal was to avoid having to edit one more file when adding a new
> codec. IOW group related informations together.

You anyway need to edit allcodecs.c, avcodec.h, and Makefile.

A somewhat different approach would be to generate all these lists
from a single source in a more suitable format.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mru at inprovide.com