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

[Loren Merritt]

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 07:36:15AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
> It is pretty hopeless that other considerable projects will adopt
> libavutil alone in other projects. Projects that need small footprint
> are better off with more specialized libraries such as gnulib or rather
> just copy the necessary parts that they need. With this in mind, nobody
> is helped by having libavutil and libavcore split. In order to ease
> maintenance inside and around FFmpeg and to reduce confusion where to
> put common code, avcore's functionality is merged (back) to avutil.

I support the merge because "libavcore/" complicates tab-completion of 
"libavcodec/".
No opinion on the technical side.

--Loren Merritt