[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Merge libavcore into libavutil

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2011-02-13 16:18:12 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd encoded:
> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> writes:
> 
> > On date Sunday 2011-02-13 16:06:10 +0100, Luca Barbato encoded:
> >> On 02/13/2011 03:53 PM, Kostya wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 07:36:15AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> >> It is pretty hopeless that other considerable projects will adopt
> >> >> libavutil alone in other projects. Projects that need small footprint
> >> >> are better off with more specialized libraries such as gnulib or rather
> >> >> just copy the necessary parts that they need. With this in mind, nobody
> >> >> is helped by having libavutil and libavcore split. In order to ease
> >> >> maintenance inside and around FFmpeg and to reduce confusion where to
> >> >> put common code, avcore's functionality is merged (back) to avutil.
> >> > 
> >> > I think that's right thing to do and patch looks ok to me.
> >> 
> >> Just to be clear, the patch looks fine and we should try to first agree
> >> on what's in what before splitting libraries in the future.
> >
> > This situation is quite paradoxical, as when the library was created
> > no-one objected to it, or I wouldn't have committed the change in the
> > first place.
> 
> Both my memory and the archives[1] tell a different story, one where
> _everybody_, including you[2], was against this split.  After some
> discussion, you reversed course and committed the split with only a
> single approval (from Michael).
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/112847
> [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/113329 

Yes but then nobody raised more objections, I wanted to have the thing
settled (indeed I was quite indifferent to the two alternatives, as I
am mostly now, with a slight preference for the split), and you
yourself approved the parts of the patch under your maintainership
(which I interpreted as: "mans is not against the change).

Now if people want to change back then I'm not against, but please
define a decision system for approving such contoversial changes.
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