[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] lavfi/buffersrc: add add av_buffersrc_close().

[wm4]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:49:33 +0200
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le sextidi 6 thermidor, an CCXXII, wm4 a écrit :
> > No, you can't do this.
> 
> Yes, I can.
> 
> > It breaks compatibility with Libav;
> 
> No, it does not. Removing it would break compatibility. Deprecating it does
> nothing.
> 
> > also what's even the purpose of this (API) change?
> 
> Fixing a long-standing issue, see the rest of the series.

I asked for the reason of the API change. What's the purpose of the API
change, if the "deprecated" method is supported forever anyway?