[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] make img_convert symbol conditional on lavc version, not libswscale

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 06:52:36PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> 
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:11:32PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> these things will have to be fixed, the only real question is if we want
> >> to bump the versions or not.
> >> If we do, then we should first make a little announcement on the list that
> >> people now would have 2 weeks time to do ABI/API breaking changes ...
> >> In the meantime we (well I, i guess) would fix the compilation issues.
> > 
> > Let's go for it then.  I'm sure you will get help fixing remaining
> > issues...
> 
> While I'm all for dropping the old scaler, I'd like to raise 3 issues:
> 
> 1 - Roundup #504 which is really important IMHO.
> 2 - Regression tests broken with new scaler.
> 3 - GPL license
> 
> I don't think we can drop the old scaler until at least these issues
> (well #3 is not really an issue) are fixed.
> 
> What we need IMHO:
> - Fix #504.
> - Fix regs tests (how is the soc student going ?)
> - Make the libswscale compile without --enable-gpl
> 
> I think this is really important. Thanks guys.

I do believe that things like issue 504 will get fixed much more quickly
if the new scaler gets enabled and the old one removed.  There will also
be an incentive for people to replace the GPL code...

Diego