[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] compat: remove in-tree NVidia headers

[wm4]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:01:48 +0100
Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:59 AM, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:49:25 +0100
> > Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:45 AM, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:  
> >> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:15:04 +0100 (CET)
> >> > Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
> >> >  
> >> >> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> >> >>  
> >> >> > The reason I haven't pushed this yet is because it breaks the build on
> >> >> > MSVC, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out pkg-config for it.  
> >> >>
> >> >> Right. I picked this up because I thought it would be nice if we could go
> >> >> through with it before the upcoming release. I am not sure I can help with
> >> >> MSVC though because I don't have an MSVC build enviroment at the moment.  
> >> >
> >> > We could just leave it to whoever wants to use MSVC to build this.
> >> > Somewhat justified IMHO, because it's an obscure hard to test
> >> > configuration (using MSVC _and_ some hw/vendor specific driver).  
> >>
> >> Knowingly breaking working configurations is not acceptable.  
> >
> > Just make it unsupported via configure.  
> 
> And thats not breaking something that works today, how?
> 
> Something works today, you want to refactor it, you get to keep it
> working. Its a simple rule.

Well, AFAIK we've dropped entire platforms without notice before.

Anyway, someone has to test/adjust this on Windows (potentially needs
nvidia hardware too), but nobody seems to be unavailable. That means
it's unmaintained.