Sorry, forgot to CC bug tracker... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Timothy Gu" <timothyg...@gmail.com> Date: Feb 3, 2014 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Bug#729203: CTTE and reasonable solutions To: "Jan Larres" <j...@majutsushi.net> Cc:
> > On Feb 3, 2014 3:39 PM, "Jan Larres" <j...@majutsushi.net> wrote: > > > > On 04/02/14 12:08, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > > > If both packages are ABI-compatible, then ffmpeg can be designed as a > > > drop-in replacement for libav and users will be free to choose. > > > > As far as I understand it the problem is that it is *not* a drop-in > > replacement as far as the libraries are concerned, every package needs > > to be recompiled depending on which library should be used. So you would > > need two different packages for every program that uses the libraries if > > you wanted to offer both in parallel. And I don't think Adrian (or > > anyone else) is against ffmpeg as such, it's just that there should be > > made a decision which one to use in order to avoid these issues. > > It's not as bad as you think. FFmpeg has a --enable-libav-incompatible-abi configure option. Didn't test the effectiveness of it though. > > Timothy > > > > > Jan > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to 729203-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org.
