On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:48:15 -0800, Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]>
wrote:
Btw, this is because of the ffmpegsource drama, right? Does this patch
actually help the ffmpegsource developers? I would be happy to include
additional #defines if, and only if, that would help them.
Not particularly. In general we try to support every reasonably recent
released version, so it's too late to fix it now.
Having 53.21.1 and 53.21.0 be significantly different versions is an
improvement over having two 51.21.0s, but it's still pretty terrible
since it ignores even the most basic parts of semantic versioning like
"bigger numbers come after smaller numbers".
API version numbers are inherently not very compatible with making API
changes on multiple branches. One possible solution would be to have
separate non-sequential defines for each API change, so that they can be
reordered or cherry-picked willy-nilly. A simpler solution would be to
just not change the API in minor releases of stable versions, since
that's generally one of the main points of stable branches.
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