[FFmpeg-devel] [libav-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Postpone API-incompatible changes until the next bump

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:12:23PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 16.08.2015 19:27, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun <
> > andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> +#define FF_API_VOXWARE           (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_AC_VLC            (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_OLD_MSMPEG4       (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_ARCH_ALPHA        (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_NEG_LINESIZES     (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_ARCH_SH4          (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_ARCH_SPARC        (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_IDCT_XVIDMMX      (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_AVFILTER_OPEN                (LIBAVFILTER_VERSION_MAJOR < 7)
> >> +#define FF_API_AVFILTER_INIT_FILTER         (LIBAVFILTER_VERSION_MAJOR < 7)
> >> +#define FF_API_NOCONST_GET_NAME             (LIBAVFILTER_VERSION_MAJOR < 7)
> >> +#define FF_API_OPT_TYPE_METADATA        (LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR < 56)
> 
> Removing these now is probably OK, because they seem to be relatively
> unused.
> 
> >> +#define FF_API_BUFS_VDPAU        (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_SET_DIMENSIONS    (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_ASPECT_EXTENDED   (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_ERROR_RATE        (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_MB_TYPE           (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_MAX_BFRAMES       (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_INPUT_PRESERVED   (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_NORMALIZE_AQP     (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_GMC               (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_MV0               (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_CODEC_NAME        (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)
> >> +#define FF_API_AFD               (LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 58)

> >> +#define FF_API_OLD_FILTER_OPTS              (LIBAVFILTER_VERSION_MAJOR < 7)

If thats removed/disabled
It will also break user scripts, examples from forum posts and
testcases from tickets, this is not just API

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