[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [Visibility] libpostproc public functions

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer said:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:04:20PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:40:40AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:36:50AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 06:52:32AM +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten?
>> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > [...] but this will drop them out of the ABI; [...]
>> > >
>> > > Changing the ABI is OK as long as you bump the library version number.
>> >
>> > removing the default_buffer functions out of the ABI is unacceptable, as
>> > they are used, by mplayer too IIRC
>>
>> My comment was meant as a general remark.
>>
>> Changing the ABI is OK if the library version number gets bumped, isn't
>> it?  I thought this was the policy: Try not to break it if possible, but
>> if it's unavoidable - so be it.
>
> sure

Removing perfectly good functionality for no reason is not acceptable.
Supporting arguably broken compiler options is not a reason.  Not even
a bad one.

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