On date Sunday 2011-04-03 15:54:48 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Stefano Sabatini <[email protected]> writes:
[...]
> >> Thus far, nobody has complained about this. Until someone does, I'm not
> >> changing it. Your meta-complaint does not count.
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.user/30661/focus=30668
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.user/30778/focus=30779
> >
> > Both users complained about --enable-filter=drawtext, but the same
> > applies to other components, for example I find
> > --enable-encoder=libx264 not enabling the libx264 encoder and not
> > failing quite counter-intuitive.
>
> Then the documentation is insufficient. Wherever the user learned of
> the libx264 encoder should document its dependencies as well.
Reading documentation is the last user resort (when all else fails),
but we should avoid to make documentation necessary at all if an
intuitive behavior can be implemented.
> You seem to like writing docs, so get started.
This is a common misconception, that is like saying that since someone
takes often the bus then he likes to take the bus, and any half-decent
English speaker could do better than me, but I also like doing useful
stuff and adding documentation is useful most of the times (and
apparently I have nothing better to do... ;-)).
--
Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
-- Gilb
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