[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ipfsgateway: Remove default gateway

[Tomas Härdin]

mån 2022-08-22 klockan 14:52 +0200 skrev Nicolas George:
> Tomas Härdin (12022-08-22):
> > I'd actually argue that in that case we should link a library that
> > implements IPFS, not split developer effort by trying to implement
> > it
> > ourselves.
> 
> Is FFmpeg meant to be just a convenient set of wrappers for existing
> libraries, then?

It Depends.

If we could rid this project of all NIH:isms that would be great. Only
keep that which is strictly better than other existing libraries, for
example higher-performance decoders. For everything else we can do
subtree merges if people still insist the project should build "out of
the box".

One excellent example of this is the recent discussion around libxml2.
I maintain that developer effort should go toward improving libxml2.
Only if that is a lost cause, if libxml2 is hopelessly slow or
irredeemably buggy, only then would a new XML parser be justified. It
seems most developers understand this. But for some reason the notion
that the same applies to *all* parsers, including decoders and
demuxers, this notion is hard to swallow. And similarly for encoders
and muxers. I have yet to see a justification that is anything but
cargo culting.

This goes especially for formats like MXF, which I have made the case
on here multiple times that we should not maintain our own decoder for,
but rather pull in bmx. And everytime I have suggested this it has been
made clear that such patches would be rejected. And so MXF developer
effort is split.

Code is a liability. We should seek to have as little of it as
possible.

/Tomas