[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Merge libavcore into libavutil

Luca Barbato lu_zero
Wed Feb 16 03:24:04 CET 2011


On 2/16/11 2:42 AM, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> Loren Merritt wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 07:36:15AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>
>>> It is pretty hopeless that other considerable projects will adopt
>>> libavutil alone in other projects. Projects that need small footprint
>>> are better off with more specialized libraries such as gnulib or rather
>>> just copy the necessary parts that they need. With this in mind, nobody
>>> is helped by having libavutil and libavcore split. In order to ease
>>> maintenance inside and around FFmpeg and to reduce confusion where to
>>> put common code, avcore's functionality is merged (back) to avutil.
>>
>> I support the merge because "libavcore/" complicates tab-completion
>> of "libavcodec/".
>> No opinion on the technical side.
>
>    lavfi is also bad in this regard :)
>

Sadly no better name cropped up =\

lu



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