[FFmpeg-devel] Implement swscale_version()

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:34:55PM +0100, Robert Swain wrote:
> 2008/8/29 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:
> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:56:41PM +0100, Robert Swain wrote:
> >> 2008/8/29 Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it>:
> >> > On date Friday 2008-08-29 20:04:28 +0200, Diego Biurrun encoded:
> >> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:59:50PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Cannot apply to the MPlayer repository.
> >> >>
> >> >> Now you can.
> >> >
> >> > All applied, thanks.
> >>
> >> I realise I'm late to the show, but what's the point in this? Why
> >> can't someone just use LIBSWSCALE_VERSION_INT directly in their code
> >> rather than calling this function?
> >
> > Because that would provide the version of the header not the actual
> > code
> 
> It's not OK to assume they're identical? Or is the purpose of this to
> check that?

yes, people occasionally have several versions of a lib (like .so) laying
around and end up linking to the wrong. The compile time header version
does not help here

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