[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Reimplement ff_img_copy_plane() as av_img_copy_plane() in libavcore, and deprecate the old function.

Stefano Sabatini stefano.sabatini-lala
Sat Sep 4 14:59:50 CEST 2010


On date Saturday 2010-09-04 13:45:30 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:52:08AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Saturday 2010-09-04 01:27:41 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
[...]
> > > if its used by a differnt lib then it is external and part of the ABI/API
> > > it also then requires all the versioning, major and minor and soname bumping
> > > if it changes. Thus the API has to be reviewed more throughout than if its
> > > just internal where we can change it trivially
> > 
> > So tell what's wrong with the following and possibly suggest what you
> > prefer instead, thus avoiding guessloops to me.
> 
> the doxy is poor, the name is poor
> call it av_image_copy_plane() for example
> 
> and doxy could be
> 
> Copy image plane from src to dst.
> That is, copy "height" number of lines of "bytewidth" bytes each.
> The first byte of each successive line is seperated by *_linesize bytes.

Doxy fixed.

As for the name I already explained that imgutils.h API is not using a
hierachical naming scheme, so av_copy_image_plane() is consistent with
the rest of the API (and imho more resembling the English language ->
more readable).

Regards.
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