[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Some lavf renames

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Saturday 2009-02-07 14:00:40 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 09:50:42AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
[...]
> > This has been discussed before, I think as a rule is best to follow
> > this path:
> > 1) rename + deprecation
> > 2) replacement in the code
> > 3) ifversioning of the old symbol
> > 
> > doing 3) before 2) may result in a break if a major bump happens
> > before 2), well this is not going to happen so from a practical point
> > of view it makes no difference but I think it's more correct.
> > 
> > Anyway if you prefer I'll apply this variant.
> 
> yes i prefer it, iam strongly against spliting patches in a way that
> asks for cruft to be missed
> it is very easy to remove the #if when someone bumps the version, it
> is not easy to notice such unused code if there is no if and no comment
> (gcc will not warn about it because it cant easily find out that it is
>  unused)

I see your point, I'll follow this path the next times.

OK to apply?
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