On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 11:00:52PM +0100, Marton Balint wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 05:51:34PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote: > > > Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2023-01-20 03:05:09) > > > > PS: iam not sure i fully understood the reason behind why versions > > > > should be > > > > set to "wrong" values during some period, so as always i might be > > > > missing > > > > something > > > > > > The reason is that after the major bump, the API and ABI are declared to > > > be unstable for some period, so people can freely > > > - break ABI, e.g. by reordering struct members > > > - modify API added during the instability period in an arbitrary way > > > without a new major bump for every such change, that would be normally > > > required. > > > > > > My concern is that the instability period is quite long and there is > > > very little indication for our users that they cannot depend on the > > > ABI/API being stable. So I'm proposing to introduce some mechanism to > > > make this more visible for our callers. > > > > > > Alternatively, we could just not have an instability period at all. > > > > Does anyone plan to use the next bumps instability period for anything ? > > If so, i assume theres a good reason why it cannot be done without such > > period easily? > > AVCodecContext->frame_number should be changed to int64_t. I guess you could
Is there a patchset that does that already ? Iam asking as i think starting work on this after the bump would be the wrong approuch Also how long of a instability period do you expect this would need ? Or maybe the question is who would work on this and have it toward the top of their todo list. thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Homeopathy is like voting while filling the ballot out with transparent ink. Sometimes the outcome one wanted occurs. Rarely its worse than filling out a ballot properly.
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