[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libmpcodecs support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 04:23:44PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:53:52PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > If this is supposed to help porting filters, publish a branch and write
> > a filter porting HOWTO that instructs people where to pull that branch
> > from.  There is absolutely no need to have this code in trunk/master.
> 
> Well, it would allow testing reimplementations against the libmpcodecs
> versions via FATE. Also it has exposed some significant performance
> differences already, so there's some suspicion that this might make
> people actually bother to compare performance.

Michael wrote the code already, devs working on filters know where to
find it.  There is no need to bloat FFmpeg with libmpcodecs.

> > I also see that Carl Eugen just committed the tab removal that directly
> > conflicts with my uncrustify work without any previous discussion, even
> > though Reimar mentioned that I am working on something related.
> 
> I have to say I didn't expect there to be any conflict, while suboptimal
> with concern to history, does this kind of change cause issues for your
> work?

It does not cause direct issues for my work, but Carl Eugen could not know
that.  The least thing he could do is ask, in the appropriate forum.  On
top of that I remember him being against cosmetic changes in the past.

Then there is the issue of bloating the history with huge and completely
pointless commits and causing conflicts for every single developer with
changes in one of the affected files.

How this kind of unannounced change can suddenly be taken for granted
without discussion just boggles my mind.  Had somebody else done it in
a different context, I'm sure the mob would already be calling for
accounts to be closed.

Diego