[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mingw and temorary files

[Corey Hickey]

Corey Hickey wrote:
>>> Ah, I didn't see those were the headers for installation -- I thought 
>>> they were just general-purpose headers. Ok, I've removed that hunk.
>> I'm against this whole tempfile thing. Why doesn't xvid just use the
>> user-configured name for a 2pass file if it needs one? Or is this used
>> for something else?? There's been this assumption that a temp file is
>> necessary with no explanation of why, and IMO it's extremely bad for a
>> _codec_ to create files on disk, temporary or not, if not requested.
> 
> I can't really comment on that one way or another. All I know is:
> 
> (a) There are two places in the codebase where temporary files are 
> created. One has a workaround for MinGW; the other doesn't.
> 
> (b) Compilation fails on MinGW because there is no workaround.
> 
> All I did was centralize the tempfile creation code, along with the 
> workaround. Now, if it is possible to avoid tempfile creation 
> altogether, then, sure, I'm all for it. I don't know how to do that, 
> though, and somehow I wouldn't expect Michael to have written that in 
> the first place if it weren't somehow necessary.
> 
> At the very least, this patch just makes an ugly situation a bit cleaner 
> and more compatible.

Rich, if you object enough to not want me to apply the patch, please say 
so; otherwise, I'll assume you reluctantly agree that it doesn't make 
the situation any worse. I'll give this one more day, and if there's no 
dissent I'll apply.

-Corey