[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC]] swscale modernization proposal

[James Almer]

On 6/22/2024 7:19 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> Needless to say I support the plan of renaming the library so that it can
> be inline with the other libraries names, and the use of a separate header
> since downstream applications will need to update a lot to use the new
> library (or the new apis in the existing library) and/or we could provide a
> thin conversion layer when the new lib is finalized.

I don't quite agree with renaming it. As Michael already pointed out, 
the av prefix wouldn't fit a scaling library nor a resampling one, as 
they only handle one or the other.
There's also the precedent of avresample, which was ultimately dropped 
in favor of swresample, so trying to replace swscale with a new avscale 
library will be both confusing and going against what was already 
established.