[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Rename APIchange to InterfaceChangelog

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Thursday 2009-06-25 00:12:45 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
[...]
> Another (imo better) solution would be to put all the build system/ff*
> tools interface changes in Changelog, that would mean also to adopt a
> format similar to that of doc/APIchanges, providing the revision
> number/date for each change.
> 
> For example we could start to fill the entries like this, e.g.:
> 
> version <next>:
> 
> - r19XXX - make configure select the input/output devices using
>   --{enable|disable}-{in,out}dev rather than
>   --{enable|disable}-{demuxer|muxer} as before
> 
> - PB-frame decoding for H.263
> - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
> ...
> 
> That would be greatly useful for people needing to update ff* tools
> based scripts (and add another bit of boredom to devs...).

Does someone care to comment on this? (I'll send anyway the configure
patch implementing the last proposal).

Regards.
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