On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Mi, Nov 02, 2011 at 13:14:49 (CET), Martin Storsjö wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >
> >> ---
> >> configure            |   21 +--------------------
> >> libavutil/internal.h |   28 ----------------------------
> >> 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> >
> > This is useful whenever we move public functions from one library to
> > another. Currently, there are no such ones, since the cases where it was
> > used was removed after the last major bump, but if we want to move more
> > functions in an upcoming bump, we'll need this again.

How often does this really happen?

> > Sure, we could just revert the removal if we need to move other
> > functions again, of course, but removing it breaks scripts that use
> > --disable-symver for the periods of time when it isn't present.

I wouldn't mind putting it back if/when the need for it arises again.

Note that in the meantime it confuses Doxygen into issuing warnings.

> We should at least deprecate that configure switch for one release
> before actually removing them.

We've never handled configure switches in this way before.

Diego
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