On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:10:27 -0300 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/15/2017 11:43 AM, wm4 wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:22:34 +0200 > > Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: > > > >> no, but that doesnt mean we can make false statments about other > >> people or their work. > >> > >> Theres the moral wrong > >> > >> Theres the technical wrong, of not correctly stating the problem and > >> that potentially affecting work on the problem > >> > >> Theres the social wrong. That is people who spend significant time on > >> the CLI becoming offended and alienated by such statments. > >> > >> Theres the legal wrong, there are many people who worked on the CLI > >> at some point. Anyone of them can probably sue us for defamation, > >> but IANAL. I dont think that would help FFmpegs / our public image. > > > > I think you're blowing this out of proportion, as usual (I guess I > > should sue myself because I've worked on ffmpeg.c too?). > > > > But my particular problem here is that some people just can't admit that > > certain parts of the code are just bad, and that they actively fight > > cleaning it up. Fuck that, I don't see any reason to hold back under > > these circumstances. > > > > ffmpeg.c in particular is a vile POS. Whenever there is a problem, I > > find half a dozen more problems, no clear way to fix it, and general > > misery. If I want to try to find out how to do something specific with > > ffmpeg.c, its help output is utterly useless and confusing, and I end > > up reading the code. I guess it produces more stackoverflow traffic and > > more need for ffmpeg specialists (especially when there's payment), so > > I guess it has something good too. > > Why did a patch to remove a warning from certain cases ended up in shit > flinging I'll never know. But I'd very much like it if it stopped here. You're right, I'll propose a patch to remove this message. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel