On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > On date Thursday 2011-06-30 15:24:00 +0200, Diego Biurrun encoded: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:12:28PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > [...] > > > > That said, FFmpeg history has shown that old broken code never gets > > > > fixed anyway, it's just left to rot and rot and rot ... > > > > > > There are notable exceptions, removing old broken/unused code should > > > be done on a case-by-case basis and only if there is a real need for > > > it. > > > > Which notable exceptions? > > I remember base64-test, for example.
As you can see, this is now a FATE test - what is your point exactly? > > We use revision control for many reasons. One is > > that it becomes easy to resurrect old code - problem solved. > > You hid it, nobody sees it, nobody fixes it. Nobody fixes it anyway, no matter if it is hidden in git HEAD or some other revision... Diego _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
