[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/6] lavfi/buffersink: add accessors for the stream properties.

[Nicolas George]

Le tridi 3 nivôse, an CCXXV, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> APIs in FFmpeg will change as long as the project is alive.
> 
> new developers join, older ones leave, peoples goals and oppinions
> change. The libavfilter API is based on the lessons learned from
> previous projects and frameworks, in that way this codebase has a quite
> long timeline and many experienced developers from multiple other
> free software projects upon whos shoulders this rests in some sense.
> 
> If we only make the API public once the ultimate global optimum is
> reached we will never do so.

I was not referring to a hypothetical global optimum, but right now we
are nowhere near a local optimum: you have certainly noticed that since
I pushed the 45k patch making filter_frame non-recursive, I had to fix
several bugs. Well, there are still a few of them lurking, and then we
need to reap the benefits of the design change.

Two days ago, I outlined my plans for lavfi:

https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-December/204686.html

I say: first do all these points, because any of these might require a
surprise rework of some internal API. Then (in parallel when relevant),
adapt ffmpeg.c to work with the cleaned-up API of lavfi and fix the
scheduling.

Then wait a year, to be sure.

Then start working on external filters.

Does it seem unreasonable?

I can assure you, when the last points in the plan will be done, I will
be so fed up with it that I will easily leave the API alone for a year.
There are plenty of other parts of the code I would like to work on.

For reference, I am halfway through the second item in the plan.
Probably more than halfway, actually.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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