[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Some lavf renames

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:31:34AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Saturday 2009-02-07 01:10:16 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> [...]
> > What about these ones?
> > 
> > av_codec_next             -> avcodec_next 
> [...]
> > av_register_input_format  -> avformat_register_input
> > av_register_output_format -> avformat_register_output
> > av_iformat_next           -> avformat_next_input
> > av_oformat_next           -> avformat_next_output
> 
> Which of these are OK?

none
they already have a av_ prefix
the names are all worse after the rename and honestly this should be obvious,
i mean its a input format -> iformat not format_next_input ???!
and then i dont see any sense in av_ -> avformat_ to begin with especially
not when EVERY application needs to be changed to adapt to the new name.
And i hope you know some applications will try to suppport lav* of more than
one major version number, such renames are VERY painfull and consistency
to some system that has not even be discussed is NOT a reason to make such
rename!
I could even argue that av_ is bette than avformat_ avcodec_, because it is
shorter and allows us to move functions between libs which we did do.

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