[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] doc: document the addition of the AVProbeData.mime_type field and it' s implications

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 02:23:55AM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 14.09.2014 01:29, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 01:05:45AM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> >>On 14.09.2014 00:43, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>>note, i will release 2.4 tomorrow (2014-09-14) or rather i intend
> >>>to. So anything that isnt pushed to the RELEASE_NOTES by then wont
> >>>be in it
> >>
> >>OK, so attached are two hopefully uncontroversial patches, one
> >>changing RELEASE_NOTES to only claim that the API is mostly
> >>compatible and the other to add Clément's wording to doc/APIChanges.
> >>
> >>I still think it would be good to mention the AVProbeData.mime_type
> >>problem in the RELEASE_NOTES, but if there is a strong preference
> >>not to do this, then so be it.
> >
> >ive no preference at all except that i want the RELEASE_NOTES file to
> >be ok for release and everyone happy with whats written in it
> 
> I see.
> 
> [...]
> >>
> >>     The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", ...
> >>-   FFmpeg 2.4 is API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major release.
> >>-   This means that the code using our libraries needs to be rebuilt, but no
> >>+   FFmpeg 2.4 is mostly API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major release.
> >>+   This means that the code using our libraries needs to be rebuilt, but only minimal
> >>     source changes should be required.
> >
> >this should probably point to what changes these are or to a list
> >like the "Behaviour changes" section
> 
> The problem is that there currently is no such list. The only
> information about these so far is doc/APIchanges, which is quite
> verbose, so that important changes can easily be missed.
> 
> What do you think about adding a short list of these in the 'API
> Information' section, like attached patch does.

applied

thanks

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