[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Removing non-pthreads support

[Måns Rullgård]

Dave Yeo <daveryeo at telus.net> writes:

> On 04/20/10 03:43 am, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Dave Yeo<daveryeo at telus.net>  writes:
>>
>>> On 04/19/10 02:16 pm, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> [...]
>>>> To ease the maintenance burden, I suggest we drop support for all but
>>>> pthreads in FFmpeg.  If there is a compelling reason for keeping any
>>>> of the others, please speak up now.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Make test succeeds on OS/2 with pthreads enabled whereas os2threads
>>> are currently broken.
>>
>> Then I suppose nobody will miss it if we remove it.
>
> I think it should be totally rewritten. In the absence of a volunteer
> to rewrite it (I'll ask around), it should probably be removed in a
> week or so.
>
>>
>>> The pthread library is incomplete though most things linked against
>>> them do work.  http://web.os2power.com/yuri/PthreadTls
>>
>> As long as it has everything FFmpeg needs to run, that's good enough
>> for us.
>>
>
> The other problem is that the file my_os2thread.c is copyright (C)
> 2000 MySQL AB under the GPL v2+. It would be nice to get it relicenced
> as LGPL or better. I'll research this as parts are also copyrighted by
> MySQL under the LGPL.
> For now I think it would be fine for the pthread library to only be
> available with --enable-gpl as the main uses for FFmpeg under OS/2 are
> GPL, eg MPlayer. If someone really wants a threaded LGPL version of
> FFmpeg they could always write one.
> This also raises the question of how the Win32 version of Pthreads is
> licenced, our source comments are all Win32 specific.

Pthreads is a standard interface, use of which cannot be governed by
any licence.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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