On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 10:20:09AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Timo Rothenpieler <timo <at> rothenpieler.org> writes: > > > The current versioning scheme is indeed simple, but > > useless in almost all other aspects. > > FFmpeg has a linear development scheme, how can you call > a continuous versioning scheme useless? It reflects 1:1 > on how FFmpeg is developed.
1. FFmpeg does NOT have a linear development scheme. See `git log --merges`. 2. FFmpeg uses Git, which is inherently distributed and nonlinear. Therefore your argument again is flawed. > > > It gives no indication about what release it is close to > > But the development here is not release-driven (note that > I am not saying it should or shouldn't be, I am just > describing how it does work for more than a decade), > just look at how the latest release was made: A random > snapshot was chosen, not even current known possible > security issues or regressions were relevant. As I have said in my reply to your last mail, and as I will do so again, whether or not release-driven FFmpeg is irrelevant to this conversation. The versioning scheme is supposed to make people's life easier. It is NOT designed to be the epitome of FFmpeg development policies. Timothy _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
