[DVDnav-discuss] New release planned? Yes!

[Timothy Gu]

On Nov 5, 2013 4:41 AM, "Jean-Baptiste Kempf" <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>
> On 05 Nov, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote :
> > On Tuesday, 05 November 2013 at 11:00, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > > On 04 Nov, Timothy Gu wrote :
> > > > would also be easier for other projects to integrate libdvdread/nav
to
> > > > their own application through submodules and things like that, and
also
> > > > easier for us to merge VLC changes if we will.
> > >
> > > The thing is that our forks will be mandatory to build VLC in the very
> > > near future. So, if distributions want to package VLC, they will have
to
> > > use that ones...
> >
> > Are you planning to make incompatible changes?
>
> I might.
> So far, no plans.

So it's ff/lav all over again? What about MPlayer? Do distros wanting to
packages both MPlayer can VLC have to choose one fork or the other?

Of course you would say that somebody will send a patch to MPlayer to use
VLC fork, but what about all the other programs using dvdread/nav out there?

The only way out of this would be adding API/ABI compatibility, but as I
see there is an 80% chance that there are not enough people to maintain
that. Thus the ultimate solution would be the abandonment of this project
in favor of yours.

Timothy