[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avdevice/avdevice: Deprecate AVDevice Capabilities API

[James Almer]

On 1/25/2021 1:46 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> James Almer (12021-01-25):
>> Solving the hacky state of lavd <-> lavf *is* useful.
> 
> The only "hacky state" comes from the useless split of the libraries.

And that's why we're trying to merge them. So again, a subdirectory is 
not obligatory for this purpose, and alternative suggestions are welcome.
Even just saying to keep them in the root folder would be more useful 
than saying "Work on something else".

> 
>> 							And it would help the
>> project a lot if you could be a tiny bit less aggressive and dismissive of
>> other people's personal opinions.
> 
> Anton is dismissive of other people's efforts — not just opinions — yet
> you said him nothing. Double standards.

Saying and thinking that lavd devices with their current capabilities 
and API are not very useful is not being "dismissive of other people's 
efforts", it's giving his opinion. He did it in fact as a reply to 
Mark's comment that the KMS/DRM output device patch didn't seem like a 
good idea.
Mark then suggested to directly replace/extend the API with one that's 
more useful in the long run, instead of removing them as Anton suggested 
since you and some other devs stated they in fact do have users, and you 
agreed to that. So how about we try to move in that direction? The first 
step is merging the libraries, and not trying to stop any relevant effort.

And for that matter, unlike you, Anton did not resort to ad hominem 
attacks to back his argument.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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