On 07/03/14 00:43, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 06/03/14 22:08, James Almer wrote: >>> On 06/03/14 5:47 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: >>>> On 06/03/14 21:34, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >>>>> Do we want this in release/10? >>>> >>>> Yes. >>> >>> The current stable version (x265 0.8) has X265_BUILD == 7. This change >>> would make libav 10 only support the development branch, and most users >>> and even distros usually prefer compiling using stable versions of >>> every library. >> >> I'm not sure, given the current level of development at least in Gentoo >> I'd track it as it comes. > > So libx265 is an even worse API bumping nightmare than libx264? > > Meh. ATM, I see three options what to do in release/10: > > 1) drop the libx264 wrapper > 2) leave it with X265_BUILD == 7 > 3) continue to backport patches to support newer builds as long as > it's safe and easy to do. > > I'm not sure what's the best way to proceed from here. >
The prospective users would probably enjoy 3 as long every api breakage is actually a fix. lu _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list libav-devel@libav.org https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
