[FFmpeg-devel] Micro version update

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 13:12:46 CEST 2013


On date Thursday 2013-10-10 20:23:13 +0000, Paul B Mahol encoded:
> On 10/10/13, Maxim Polijakowski <max_pole at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > our developer documentation still says that submitters of new codecs
> > need to reset the micro version number:
> >
> > Citation:
> > 3. Did you bump the minor version number (and reset the micro version
> > number) in `libavcodec/version.h' or `libavformat/version.h'?
> >
> > http://www.ffmpeg.org/developer.html#New-codecs-or-formats-checklist
> >
> > IIRC, newer FFmpeg should have the micro version >= 100 in order to
> > permit distinguish between FFmpeg and Libav.
> > Therefore I wonder if the home page should be updated on this topic.
> 
> Yes, origin of that text is from Libav.
> Text clarification is welcome.
> Developers here do not strictly follows such rules.

Also that documentation is not updated (doesn't consider other libs
but lavc/lavf), and yes we are not so strict when applying the rules.
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