[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Deprecate av_opt_show() in favor of a new function av_opt_show2(), which allows to specify only a subset of all the options to show.

[Ramiro Polla]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Stefano Sabatini
<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Wednesday 2010-09-01 17:53:32 +0200, Aurelien Jacobs encoded:
>> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:53:10AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> > diff --git a/libavcodec/opt.c b/libavcodec/opt.c
>> > index 128d95d..7c8a9c1 100644
>> > --- a/libavcodec/opt.c
>> > +++ b/libavcodec/opt.c
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > +#if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 53
>>
>> Please don't use LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR directly.
>> Instead, define a FF_API_OPT_SHOW in avcodec.h.
>
> What's the advantage of such approach?

It has been discussed lately on the list. It's easier to
enable/disable specific updates.