[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Remove the ffserver program and the ffm muxer/demuxer

[James Almer]

On 10/28/2016 2:31 PM, compn wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:42:22 -0300 James Almer wrote:
>> On 10/27/2016 3:36 PM, Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet wrote:
>>> On 10/27/2016 11:25 AM, James Almer wrote:
>>>> This is not how things were agreed.
>>> I haven't agreed to this.
>> You could have shown your displeasure in the relevant discussion and
>> patch threads, and on IRC. Why didn't you?
>>
>> A quick search on the archive shows
>> https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-April/192808.html
>> https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-July/196500.html
> 
> but then there was this in september, after the news entry was posted
> 
> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-September/199686.html

This is like someone showing up the day a collapsing building is scheduled
to be demolished suggesting to instead add some extra cement to keep it
in place. That simply would fly.
One at most can suggest what could be built in its place afterwards.

> 
> i'd suggest talking to that person before applying said patch.

As i said, nobody is against a working ffserver replacement made from scratch,
out of tree or otherwise, but the decision was already made and announced in
more than one channel.

> we can talk before applying a patch still, right? :)

Sure, we're doing it right now. But the time to have an effect on the
decision is long past. It was at the latest back with the news entry patch.
A thread where for that matter you didn't talk.

> 
> -compn