On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 07:30:24PM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 06:49:35PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:57:36PM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:25:18PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > > [...] > > > > ffserver had 14 commits to it in about the last month > > > > > > That's also pretty close to the number of commits in the last years. > > > > > > Good will in the last weeks is not enough of a technical > > > merit/justification to prevent the removal of junk code scheduled for > > > deletion for a long time now. > > > > why do you call it junk ? > > because it's highly dependent on internal stuff, very limited, completely > untested, unmaintained for several years but still contains a ton of code. > > > and the sheduling for deletion was conditional on it not being fixed > > IIRC. > > Why the hurry to remove it while people work on fixing it ? > > its not blocking anything ATM AFAIK > > There is no hurry, but piling up a bunch patches to fix small things just > to use it as an argument to say "hey look now it's maintained" in order to > save it from being killed is really annoying. The people interested in it > had years to act. >
> You can fix a ton of little things in it, but unless the fundamental > problems are addressed (ZERO internal API usage + at least partial FATE > coverage) it's pointless of course the goal is ZERO internal API usage + at least partial FATE coverage. Well in fact the lack of fate tests have been the primary reason why i didnt fix some of the API issues years ago. I felt uneasy changing it without regression tests > and will be seen as yet another case of "KEEP > EVERYTHING FOREVER" toxic mentality. The opposit is toxic too Thanks [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB it is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. -- Aristotle
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