[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] restoring binary compatibility with ffmpeg 0.5

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 06:25:08PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:19:52PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:46:23PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 05:03:40PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > tl;dr
> > > 
> > > Anyway, I suggest we use the opportunity to break compatibility and
> > > change APIs.  There are a lot of ifdefs that long for being removed.
> > 
> > The problem is not so much the "now case", a single soname bump isnt
> > the big issue.
> > The big issue is that we would need to bump soname everytime we move a
> > symbol and thats not that rare ...
> 
> What about breaking compatibility now anyway?

just because we can?
iam not in favor of that

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