[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3] lavu: add an AV_FRAME_DATA_GAMMA side data type

[James Almer]

On 11/8/2017 5:52 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 11/8/17, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
>> L'octidi 18 brumaire, an CCXXVI, Hendrik Leppkes a ecrit :
>>> In the meantime, it does no real harm to add one more sidedata type to
>>> the numerous list of types we already have, and lets people carry on
>>> with their work.
>>
>> It does harm, look at the other patch: 5 lines of useless clutter out of
>> 10 lines for the feature, using side data for that features has a 100%
>> overhead.
>>
>> And that is not only for the code here, it has the same consequences for
>> the applications that will use that API as well: they have to do the
>> same errors checks, they have to handle a type-pruned pointer, check the
>> size of the data, etc. This is a terrible API, there is no doubt that
>> people would prefer a single field.
>>
>> By all means let us discuss all this. But if Paul maintains his veto, I
>> maintain mine. Please persuade Paul to behave like an adult of make good
>> on his trice-repeated promise of forking.
> 
> Maybe I promised a fork, but looks like people are already forking FFmpeg
> because of people like you, latest one being ffmpeg-mpv.
> 
> There should be new call for voting commitee to drop you, Michael and Carl
> from veto voting commitee. You guys should not block others work.

Please, everyone, it's a PNG patch. Why are any of you even remotely ok
with turning it into a project flamewar?