[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] remove MSVC-specific

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:39:01PM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>> Also i assume that whoever wrote the 2 lines had tested them so i would guess
> >>> they are more likely correct than not.
> >> History proves that not (the ifdef was wrong sometime in-between) ;-)
> >>
> >>> And yes, i also would appreciate if we had some maintainer for MSVC related
> >>> hunks.
> >> And my main intention was to get some of those complainers (even if
> >> their complaining is justified) to do something.
> > 
> > Hmm if you think that breaking MSVC is effective in raising a volunteer
> > for MSVC maintaince then by all means go ahead with the ritual.
> 
> Probably the reverse: it will reinforce the feeling (whether justified 
> or not) that submitting contributions for MSVC support is pointless 
> because they would be either rejected at once, or savaged later, by 
> MS-bashers (of which there is certainly no lack here).

I do not know who you think of, but if you haven't noticed gcc,
binutils, Solaris userland, OS/2 all have received similar levels of
flames (and in the case of OS/2 IIRC much harder to reimplement code was
removed than this MSVC stuff). Also IIRC for OS/2 things moved much more
smoothly after people stopped insisting on ugly hacks.
And even ICC support was not done in one step or even one day, and
involved its share of flames.
Sure, as a MSVC user expect to need a thicker skin for several reasons,
but I think we have proven often enough that clean patches will get
accepted even for a feature considered "useless" by most, though opinions
of what is clean may differ.
Maybe I missed something, but so far I have only seen people arguing for
the MSVC stuff without any specific arguments, I can not even remember
saying _explicitly_ that they use that code (though it is quite possible
that they meant to say that).
And lastly: if there are more than a handful MSVC users, you also have
the option of doing a fork and keeping it up to date, thereby proving
that there are people willing to maintain that stuff and it is mot much
effort to maintain.
But from my point of view the situation seems a lot like with releases:
lots of complaining, little work actually done.

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger