On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Luca Barbato <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/03/14 00:43, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Luca Barbato <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 06/03/14 22:08, James Almer wrote:
>>>> On 06/03/14 5:47 PM, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>>> On 06/03/14 21:34, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>>>> Do we want this in release/10?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>> The current stable version (x265 0.8) has X265_BUILD == 7. This change
>>>> would make libav 10 only support the development branch, and most users
>>>> and even distros usually prefer compiling using stable versions of
>>>> every library.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure, given the current level of development at least in Gentoo
>>> I'd track it as it comes.
>>
>> So libx265 is an even worse API bumping nightmare than libx264?
>>
>> Meh. ATM, I see three options what to do in release/10:
>>
>> 1) drop the libx264 wrapper
>> 2) leave it with X265_BUILD == 7
>> 3) continue to backport patches to support newer builds as long as
>> it's safe and easy to do.
>>
>> I'm not sure what's the best way to proceed from here.
>>
>
> The prospective users would probably enjoy 3 as long every api breakage
> is actually a fix.
As a distribution maintainer, I would be very upset if a Libav point
release broke compilation because I refuse to update my copy of
libx265 for any reason.
--
regards,
Reinhard
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