[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Change DVDNAV command key name

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 6/20/08, Benjamin Zores <ben at geexbox.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It might be a tad late, but wouldn't it be better to deprecate the
>> 'dvdnav 1' style and add the new one on top?  That way frontends can
>> easily upgrade.  After all, slave mode is essentially an API.
>
> I don't really see what what needs to be deprecated.
> Can you explain ?

I think he want both syntax to be working,
the old one to be marked as deprecated in the documentation.
The idea is to give time to the frontends time to update their
handling of the api.