[FFmpeg-devel] [TC] Decision on FF_INTERNAL_FIELDS in libavfilter

[FFmpeg Technical Committee]

Hi,

Last year, Anton raised the conflict on his patch "lavfi: get rid of FF_INTERNAL_FIELDS", https://lists.ffmpeg.org//pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2023-January/306102.html, to the TC to decide on.

At the time, the TC did not come to any conclusion on the matter. Recently, Anton raised the question again, and this time, the current TC managed to successfully discuss the matter and come to a conclusion.

The main arguments raised were about API consistency, prevention of accidental inclusions, as well as explicitness in marking a field as public or private. These advantages were deemed to be worth the trade-off of making access to private fields slightly less convenient.

The TC has voted on the matter, with 4 votes in favour of the patch, 1 vote preferring to look for other solutions, and Anton himself abstaining from the vote.

Therefore, the matter has been decided, approving the patch at hand.

Regards,
The FFmpeg Technical Committee
- Jan Ekström
- Mark Thompson
- Martin Storsjö
- Michael Niedermayer
- Niklas Haas
- Anton Khirnov