[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] s/RUNTIME/POST_INIT_SETTABLE/

[Andrew Sayers]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 06:49:51PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 12:40:07PM +0200, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > its much more text to type too.
> 
> shorter options:
> 
> AV_OPT_FLAG_ALTERABLE_PARAM
> 
> AV_OPT_FLAG_MUTABLE_PARAM
> 
> (just in case consensus ends on a rename, i am not sure a rename is a good idea here)

I'm fine with someone doing s/POST_INIT_SETTABLE/MUTABLE/g on the patch before
committing it if they feel that's better, but ALTERABLE seems like a bad idea.

I guess you could argue a sufficiently inattentive reader might read
"POST_INIT_SETTABLE" to mean "*only* settable after init", even though
the documentation says otherwise.  But such a reader might also read
"ALTERABLE" to somehow mean "data type can be altered" (like SQL's ALTER TABLE
statement), whereas "mutable" conventionally means "contents can be altered".

But this is just a nitpick - POST_INIT_SETTABLE is still fine by me.