[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make configure use --enable-{in, out}dev=foo for enabling a single inoutdev

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:30:52AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Monday 2009-06-22 07:29:50 +0200, Reinhard Tartler encoded:
> > M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> writes:
> > 
> > >> This is both cleaner and less confusing.
> > >
> > > No objections from me.  This will of course break configure-invoking
> > > scripts, so users with such scripts may be displeased.  Any such users
> > > care to comment?
> > 
> > Please document that change in Changelog or some more appropriate
> > place. doc/APIchanges might not just fit here. Probably it should also
> > go in the release notes of the next release.
> 
> Well we could add something like this in the Changelog:
> 
> - make configure select the input/output devices using
>   --enable-{in,out}dev/--disable-{in,out}dev
> 
> otherwise we could rename 'APIChanges' -> 'InterfaceChanges' and fill
> it not only with the API changes, but also with the
> configuration/build and ff* tools interface changes (or alternatively
> we could have a separated file for that, but that looks overkill).
> 
> I have a slight preference for the last proposal, after all the
> Changelog is more used for enumerating the features added/dropped
> rather than the interface changes.

Seconded, our changelog is rather sparse..

Diego