Re: ffmpeg in devel: to bump or not to bump
On 14.09.2008 16:59, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Sunday, 14 September 2008 at 16:06, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
[...]
Admittedly the situation with ffmpeg
has improved over the last year or so, so as long as the applications
using ffmpeg have updated their interfaces in the last few months,
there should be less and less breakage in the future.
Yeah, I have noticed that and I'm really glad about it. But I feel kind
of burned from the past here, that's why I'm still a bit careful when it
comes to ffmpeg updates.
I'll take a look at libdlna if I can spare some time later.
thx
>> ffmpeg SVN r15262 introduced a bump to major libavcodec
version, so
>> all dependent packages will need a rebuild. The last time this has
>> happened was in r4726, over 2 and a half years ago. There are some
>> API changes going on right now so I'm not going to do it just yet.
> Just to be sure: You said "need a rebuild" and "API changes" in
above
> para. Thus the apps that use ffmpeg not only need adjustments for the
> new ffmpeg but also code changes?
Possibly. Now that they've broken ABI, all kinds of changes can be
expected. On second thought maybe I'll wait until F10 is released
with this. I'll update FFmpeg to the last snapshot with the old ABI
in all branches to have a good base, but I'll wait for Fedora rawhide
fork (and the following RPMFusion devel fork) to do the ABI bump.
Does that sound okay?
Sounds like a good plan to me.
CU
knurd