[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [MP] [PATCH] making xvid options lavc compatible

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,
Le mar 28/09/2004 à 19:08, Matthias Wieser a écrit :
> Am Dienstag, 28. September 2004 07:07 schrieb Vladimir Mosgalin:
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >
> > DRM>I wanted to test lavc vs xvid encoding of some anime and used a
> > script to DRM>automate things and use the largest possible common
> > subset of encoding DRM>options. To my annoyance, I discovered that
> > DRM>1. many options have slightly different names, even though they
> > mean DRM>   exactly the same
> >
> > But you are breaking scripts that are already written! IMHO if you have
> > troubles with your script you should work around them.
> 
> * old options stay unmodified but print out "[...] deprecated [...] will 
> be removed [date] [...]!"
> + Add renamed options
> + After some time remove old options.
> 
> Only a suggestion...

Could anybody explain me why everybody gets excited about an option name
change (which is just cosmetics, and may not be appreciated by XviD
guys), and nobody comments on the patch I sent Sep 23 to support XviD
1.1.x? 

Guillaume