[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Add option for writing detailed filtergraph information to file or stdout

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Nicolas George
> Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2021 10:05
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Add option for writing
> detailed filtergraph information to file or stdout
> 
> Soft Works (12021-08-26):
> > Does that answer your question?
> 
> Yes. It is almost exactly what I had guessed. And therefore my answer
> is
> what I expected it do be: that does not justify thousands, or even
> hundreds, of lines of code in the core library and tools.

I'm getting confused.

While I've been going through your recent submissions, I noticed your
proposals from April: 

- lavu: new AVWriter API
- lavu: add a JSON writer API
- et. al.

There's no doubt for me that this proposal is a good thing, especially
when it would be able to replace the ffprobe writers eventually.
(I have once another project where I just duplicated the ffprobe writers
because they weren't easily reusable).
So, nice work, I really appreciate that.


What makes me wonder a bit:

- I had written in the commit message that the output writers would need 
  to be merged with the ffprobe writers

- But you didn’t tell that you already got the solution "in your pocket"

- Instead you criticized my patch for its LOC count, even though that is 
  just made up from the output writers code duplication...


I'm confused...

softworkz