[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] doc/APIchanges: clarify comment on new APIs.

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 00:49:52 CET 2012


On date Saturday 2012-11-10 13:17:40 +0100, Nicolas George encoded:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org>
> ---
>  doc/APIchanges |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
> index 5593ae7..f560422 100644
> --- a/doc/APIchanges
> +++ b/doc/APIchanges
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  Never assume the API of libav* to be stable unless at least 1 month has passed
> -since the last major version increase.
> +since the last major version increase or the API was added.

This has pros and cons, IMO this would be a good compromise between
easing the life of API users and the life of developers (maintaining
backward compatibility layers is annoying and boring, especially when
there is no clear advantage for them, like in this case).

Thus LGTM.
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