[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: Remove deprecated incompatible_fork_abi option

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:21:20PM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 05:11:28 +0200
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:51:21AM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > > On 03/04/14 10:38 PM, James Almer wrote:
> > > > It's been deprecated since ffmpeg 2.0
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  configure | 7 -------
> > > >  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Ping.
> > 
> > googling
> > "enable-incompatible-fork-abi" gives 1040 hits
> > "enable-incompatible-libav-abi" gives 692 hits
> > 
> > so iam a bit reluctant to drop the first, as the internet
> > predominantly "points" users to it.
> > but i didnt investigate deeper like what forums / mails / docs point
> > to ...
> > 
> > but its sure annoying when a user finds some article saying that one
> > option fixes something and then that option just doesnt work
> 
> OK, I also googled these terms. Results:
> 
> - lots of results that are various ffmpeg-devel mailing list archives
> - some results in ffmpeg git mirrors
> - the ffmpeg AUR package, which lists all unused/disabled configure
>   options and the reason why it's disabled - it has this descriptive
>   entry:
> 
>     # --enable-incompatible-fork-abi  # DO NOT WANT
> 
> - one link with a chinese translation of all configure scripts
> - one hit is the #ffmpeg-devel stuff, where some ffmpeg developers and
>   myself discuss how useless this switch is
> - one hit to a debian packaging discussion, which mentions that this
>   switch is useless and that they don't want it
> 
> And nothing else. That's where google actually stops delivering
> results, saying that there are only duplicate hits left.
> 
> Conclusion: this switch is
> 1. unused
> 2. useless
> 3. not worth maintaining

if the switches arent used much then removing the old one should be
fine i guess
so applied

thanks


> 
> So just drop the discussion about dropping the alias - can this horrible
> ifdeffery hairball be removed entirely already?
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