[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:58:31PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:07:15PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
> >> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
> >> >> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> >> > So it seems really questionable to me that FFmpeg is the place that needs fixing.
> >> >>
> >> >> It certainly does. Even if the SONAME trick is used, and there are two
> >> >> packages in Fedora, one would need to strip out all the
> >> >> patent-encumbered source code.
> >> >
> >> > If anything below a separate "special-Fedora" source repository is not
> >> > enough there's no point in discussing any further.
> >>
> >> It's not about Fedora, but distributions that don't want to include
> >> patent encumbered code.
> >
> > there are no such distributions
> 
> I guess Fedora, openSUSE, Maemo and MeeGo don't count in your
> definition of distribution.

you really are a strange guy
when someone says theres no blue apple you awnser along the lines of
there are 3 red apples


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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Rewriting code that is poorly written but fully understood is good.
Rewriting code that one doesnt understand is a sign that one is less smart
then the original author, trying to rewrite it will not make it better.
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