[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Tell users about -use_absolute_path

[wm4]

On Sat, 9 May 2015 21:30:33 +0200
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le decadi 20 floréal, an CCXXIII, wm4 a écrit :
> > Uh, I replied with what exactly you asked for.
> 
> Carl Eugen asked for alternate wordings, and instead of trying honestly to
> propose something that would be acceptable, you propose something that is
> deliberately unacceptable.
> 
> In other words, you are a troll.

Here's what I replied to, quoted within the "-----------":

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wm4:
> I suspect you would reject the wording needed for my own application.  

Not telling what it would be is an easy way not to be proved wrong.
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Who is the troll here?

> Carl Eugen: I prefer "the use_absolute_path option" to "-use_absolute_path",
> but dash can be considered the universal symbol for an option, so please go
> ahead.
> 

I bet not a single libavformat using application accepts
"-use_absolute_path" as option, except of course ffmpeg/ffprobe.

So why would libavformat print this syntax?

This is just absurd.