[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 3.5 / 4.0

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 19 18:01:51 EEST 2018


On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:47:54 -0300
James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/19/2018 11:43 AM, wm4 wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:33:47 +0200
> > Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> James Almer (2018-04-19):  
> >>> Had it been in 3.4 it would have mean a considerable ABI breakage as
> >>> well, at least without the eventual backwards compat change.    
> >>
> >> Can you explain why you think that?
> >>
> >> When advising on these changes and reviewing patches, I was very careful
> >> that they do not introduce API nor ABI changes.  
> > 
> > Your care is appreciated, but it still caused API changes and some
> > rather critical bugs.
> >   
> >> Apart from bugs in protocols that were not fixed immediately, the only  
> > 
> > 6 months later is "immediately"? Strange sense of time.  
> 
> He said "were not".

Missed that, sorry.


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