[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] merge libavcore into libavutil

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2011-02-07 20:47:42 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> On date Monday 2011-02-07 20:44:53 +0100, Reimar D?ffinger encoded:
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:28:29PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
> > > > I just think the case for this change isn't really convincing, it is a big
> > > > change, it is kind of an API/ABI change (there are not even stub functions
> > > > left behind) and lastly the logical conclusion to the given arguments would
> > > > be to remove _both_ libavutil and libavcore (since the argument is that
> > > > there's no point in a stand-alone libavutil).
> > > 
> > > I am unable to find a logical line of reasoning in that statement.
> > 
> > I mean: the reason given is that there is nobody using libavutil on its own.
> > Why then should we keep libavutil as a separate lib?
> 
> libswscale/libavfilter.

On the other hand the problem is more related to distros than
stand-alone users.

Indeed using the same logic one may want just one big configurable
libffmpeg library.
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