[FFmpeg-devel] ABI break in 4.3

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 11:48:14PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 2020-07-05 23:17, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> >so its all doable in theory, but at that point the question arises, can we
> >maybe generate this automatically from the APIchanges file if we decide to
> >do that.
> >APIchanges should list all added functions and the version numbers.
> 
> APIchanges would have to become more "machine-readable".

yes


> Like, for example,
> https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/libc.abilist

machines are not that stupid. The existing format is fine, it just has to be
consistent
just consider
git grep '[Aa]dd [a-z0-9_]*()' doc/APIchanges
that probably catches most added functions, the previous hash from each
gives you the git version to match it to.
Sure it wont work for 100% but the 5% this fails for can be just edited
to be consistent so it works too and it keeps the format enjoyable for humans
to read and write

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