On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:04 AM, QDVDAuthor <[email protected] > wrote:
> > If you look at local_ffmpeg.sh, it will pull a text file from my web > page which specifies that ffmpeg version. > > I'm actually curious as to the reasoning behind that. What's the intent in having the ffmpeg version determined at compile-time? It seems to me that would only *increase* the likelihood of build problems, honestly. With ffmpeg's moving-target APIs and ABIs, version-compatibility is pretty much intrinsically married to the consuming code. We've seen that time and time again. So, seeing as any given revision of a codebase like qdvdauthor was developed, tested, and API-targeted towards a specific ffmpeg release (ideally), *that release's identity* (and location) should be encapsulated directly alongside the code, since it's really the only ffmpeg version that you can hope to promise compatibility with at build-time. Swapping out a given ffmpeg release for a newer one in some process external to the codebase (like, say, by updating that referral URL) risks breaking things for anyone who's trying to build a revision of the qdvdauthor code that wasn't tested against that new version. (Those people may be backrev, but why would it be a good thing to *break* compilation of previous revisions of the codebase?) If a new ffmpeg release is synced to, then the necessary changes can be checked in alongside the updated URL, so that anyone who checks out the newest revision builds against the newer ffmpeg, and anyone who hasn't yet gotten the latest changes continues to build against the ffmpeg release that was tested with the code they have. -FeRD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ QDVDAuthor-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qdvdauthor-users
