[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Publish ffprobe.xsd to ffmpeg web site (trac ticket #1265)

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Wed May 16 00:47:50 CEST 2012


On date Tuesday 2012-05-15 16:50:35 +0100, James Slater encoded:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > is this url pretty enough ?
> > > https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/doc/ffprobe.xsd
> > > https://raw.github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/master/doc/ffprobe.xsd
> >
> > Well, the point raised by the ticket reporter is that that url is not
> > that nice, also it depends on the source control system we're using,
> > and it may well change in the future.
> >
> > That's why he proposes to have this instead:
> > http://www.ffmpeg.org/schema/ffprobe.xsd
> 
> That "pretty" URL could be configured to do an HTTP 302 redirect to
> a github URL, meaning that any changes to the version control system
> would merely require the redirect updating. 

+1, can this be done?

> A potential downside to the idea could be people mistakenly documenting
> the redirected URL rather than the official one.

Nothing is prefect.
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