[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/3] lavc: remove Libav ABI compat hacks

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi Nicolas,

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le nonidi 19 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ronald S. Bultje a écrit :
> > For something important like this, we'd better have continuous (not
> > one-off, or "it worked for me on this one file 6 months ago") tests that
> > ensure it works for real in practice. Did we ever have such tests?
>
> I do not think we ever had, and it would have been a good idea indeed. A
> probably valid testing procedure would be to run FATE from a libav tree
> compiled as shared library with LD_LIBRARY_PATH loading ffmpeg's library.
>
> But setting up automated tests is only second to making a DECISION about
> ABI
> compatibility.


Well, I see them very much related. If nobody even cares to set up tests
for this, it can hardly be important.

In light of that, I wouldn't mind removing this feature.

Ronald