[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] lavfi: make filter_frame non-recursive.

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> Le quartidi 24 brumaire, an CCXXV, Clement Boesch a écrit :
>> I'm OK to make an exception for filter links that way if it's really
>> important for you, but I don't think that's a good way of dealing with the
>> problem in the rest of the codebase.
>
> Why? The arguments I gave for AVFilterLink apply to a lot of similar
> structures. It would make the actual code in a lot of places simpler.
>

If anything this discussion has shown that there are quite different
priorities for many different developers.

A key priority for many of us here seems to be to have a clean
separation in public and private fields and keeping the public API
clean and respectable (no weird ifdeffery in public headers, for
example).
We've had such a messy API for such a long time, so if we define any
new solutions for the future, it should be one we can all be happy
with.

You seem to prefer a bit more internal simplicity over external
interfaces, which is fine, but you should not expect everyone to share
that preference.

- Hendrik