[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpcodecs ve_x264.c,1.23,1.24

Thu Apr 14 03:25:30 CEST 2005

On Thursday, 14 April 2005 at 00:14, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:13:09PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > There is rule in mplayer never to remove an option or functionality,#
> > no matter how useless it is.
> 
> There is no such rule, never has been.
> 
> DOCS/tech/cvs-howto.txt states
> 
> "Do not remove functionality from the code. Just improve!"

This *is* removing functionality.

> Useless things, bad options and deprecated features have been removed
> from MPlayer in the past and will be removed in the future.

That option is arguably not useless, definitely not bad and certainly
not deprecated.

Just my 3 cents.
R.

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