On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 02:39:28 +0200 Frank Lömker <floem...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello, > > On 08/09/2015 08:51 PM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Frank Lömker <floem...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> And that's even the easy part. A lot of people don't update there > >> distribution every six months, often it's years old. If you try to > >> support all these distributions you end up with lot's and lot's of > >> #ifdefery. With FFmpeg and it's continuous API changes that gets > >> quite fast quite complex and hard. And adding a copy of FFmpeg and > >> linking statically to every small tool is really not a solution. > >> > > > > Old distribution, old ffmpeg, but wanting new software? > > Is the linux world so jaded that everyone just ignores this conflict, > > instead of expecting users to update their system if they want brand > > new apps to work on it? > > I find that quite normal. Why should it be required to update the > complete system, a perfectly running one, just to use a small tool > you need for a special task? There is a reason for e.g. even the Because the distro wants you to by packaging only a single version of ffmpeg. Distros want pain? Let them have pain. But leaves us alone. > ABI, in addition to API, stability of the kernel for user code or > the libc ABI/API stability. > > That's especially important for out of distribution software, and > there is a lot of that. > > Bye, > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
