On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 01:25:59AM +0200, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Timo Rothenpieler > <t...@rothenpieler.org> wrote: > >>> While it's true that all fields after it are not public API/ABI, a lot > >>> of software seems to misuse it, so to avoid too much trouble for now, > >>> this should be fixed. > >> > >> How do you expect library users to start using the API correctly if every > >> time they do something wrong we are the ones that rush to break our code > >> just to adapt to their mistakes? > > > > During an actual major bump, where such breakage is expected. > > A lot of stuff gets it wrong, and it is indeed confusing, so putting all > > blame on API users seems wrong to me. Specially as this issue will block > > distributions from adapting 3.1. > > Plenty previous releases moved fields that were marked as "no direct > access", usually because libav added a new field above the > ffmpeg-exclusive ones (like AVFrame.channels, which is a common > candidate), and we didn't do such a song and dance to accomodate > everyone.
> I asked this in other threads before - why this time? because it caused bugs this time which we could fix, previously either we couldnt fix them without breaking something else or noone was affected/reported anything or we did fix them [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Dictatorship: All citizens are under surveillance, all their steps and actions recorded, for the politicians to enforce control. Democracy: All politicians are under surveillance, all their steps and actions recorded, for the citizens to enforce control.
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