On 2/24/20, Soft Works <softwo...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of >> Anton Khirnov >> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 3:55 PM >> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg- >> de...@ffmpeg.org> >> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 03/12] lavfi: drop vf_qp >> >> Quoting Carl Eugen Hoyos (2020-02-24 13:50:57) >> > Am Mo., 24. Feb. 2020 um 13:40 Uhr schrieb Anton Khirnov >> <an...@khirnov.net>: >> > > >> > > It fundamentally depends on an API that has been deprecated for five >> > > years, has seen no commits since that time and is of highly dubious >> > > usefulness. >> > >> > Please explain how the removed functionality was replaced. >> >> It was not, for the reasons mentioned in the commit message. In my view, >> the fact that nobody fixed it in all that time proves that nobody cares >> about >> this functionality and thus that there is no value in keeping it. >> >> Furthermore, I believe this filter (and all the associated >> "postprocessing" >> ones) are anachronistic relics of the DivX era. They were in fashion >> around >> ~2005 (though I doubt they were actually improving anything even then) >> but >> nobody with a clue has used them since > > Following those or similar arguments in a consequent way, would quickly > constitute quite a list of ffmpeg features having "no value" anymore. >
Please write such a list, I'm interested. > Removing features from one day to another would appear to me as a bit > too extreme, no matter how useless the feature might be. > > Maybe it would make sense to introduce some kind of feature category > like "legacy features" where those types of features can be 'parked' > for a while before getting removed eventually. > > (of course, allowing to configure build with or without those features). > > softworkz > > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
