[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/26] Major library version bump

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/25/23, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 22:29, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 1/25/23, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 22:20, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>> On 1/25/23, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 22:03, Marton Balint wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 21:08, Marton Balint wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, James Almer wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 1/24/2023 12:45 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>  So to summarize the discussion so far:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  * nobody is strongly arguing for an instability period after the
>>>>>>>>>> bump,
>>>>>>>>>>     and there are good reasons against it, therefore we should
>>>>>>>>>> NOT
>>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>>>     one
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  * the bump can be done either as bump-then-remove or
>>>>>>>>>> remove-then-bump
>>>>>>>>>>       * there are advantages and disadvantages for both of those,
>>>>>>>>>> nobody
>>>>>>>>>>         expressed a strong preference for either, so you can keep
>>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>>>>         is
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  Please correct me if I misunderstood or missed something, or
>>>>>>>>>> somebody
>>>>>>>>>>  has a new opinion.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Since the instability period doesn't seem popular, if anyone has
>>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>>> patches
>>>>>>>>> for ABI changes (enum value or field offset changes, removing
>>>>>>>>> avpriv_
>>>>>>>>> functions we forgot about, etc), then please send them asap so i
>>>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>>>> push
>>>>>>>>> them all at the same time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ok, I can send the frame number changes tomorrow. When do you plan
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> do
>>>>>>>> the actual bump? I assumed the last 5.x release should be branched
>>>>>>>> first.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why? 5.1 was already branched out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And is missing 6 months of development.
>>>>>
>>>>> So you want us to release both 6.0 and 5.2 at the same time?
>>>>> I don't get it.
>>>>
>>>> So user do not need to immediately update code that uses old API to
>>>> get new fancy features.
>>>
>>> And when do you stop doing this?
>>
>> After 6.0 tagged.
>>
>>> Also, as 5.1 is LTS, is 5.2 LTS too?
>>>
>>
>> No, its not.
>
> So, we tag 5.2 out of master?
> Then bump, and tag 6.0 too? And then branch out 6.0?

Yes, with all old API support removed. This is the new way!

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