[ffmpeg-devel] Suggestion: rename libavformat\utils.c andlibavcodec\utils.c

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 2/6/06, Philippe Dirkse <philippe at mondobizzarro.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> would it be wise to rename the two utils.c files into e.g.
> >> libavcodec\utilsc.c and libavformat\utilsf.c? As far as I can tell the
> >> impact is minimal (changing the filenames and two makefiles). The reason
> >> I ask is because during a debugging session with ddd this afternoon I
> >> noticed that it can not discriminate between two files with the same name
> >> even if they are in separate directories so you can open only one (which
> >> was of course the wrong one in my case).
> >
> > I doubt there's a change that smth like that will happen as long as we
> > are using CVS as a version control system. CVS doesn't make it
> > possible to easily rename files without loosing the history.
> >
> > Once we will use SVN, maybe that could be considered though...
>
> Ah yes, the illustrious CVS... I was afraid there would be a wrench in the
> machine as I cannot imagine I'm the first to encounter this 'problem'. Ah
> well, it's not a big problem, I can make the changes myself within minutes
> whenever I have to debug utils.c.
>
> Are there any concrete plans about moving to SVN?

Yes, that's precisely why I mentioned it. I'll be done 'as soon as
it's ready to do so'.

Guillaume
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