On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:25:10AM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> On 4/21/2017 7:05 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 07:06:04AM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> >>On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:26:10 -0400
> >>Vittorio Giovara <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>This should make these APIs simpler to use, and less error prone
> >>>in case the caller does not check they are valid, and makes them
> >>>more similar to other naming APIs.
> >>>---
> >>>This should help in the bug in avprobe found by Luca.
> >>>Sending as RFC since I believe we are allowed to break this API as we
> >>>did the version bump, but I'd like to be sure.
> >>>
> >>>  libavutil/pixdesc.c | 10 +++++-----
> >>>  libavutil/pixdesc.h | 10 +++++-----
> >>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>This is a serious API change and needs to go through the entire
> >>deprecation circus.
> >
> >We're still in the bump period...
> 
> That gives you free reign to play with offsets in public structs and with
> symbol availability, but not to change the signature or return value of
> functions in a way that existing downstream code will break. API breaks are
> not the same as ABI breaks.

I know the difference between ABI and API. What I meant is that I consider
us still in API breaking season.

Diego
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