[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: don't build ffserver unless explicitly enabled

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Sven C. Dack <sven.c.dack at sky.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/16 15:12, Nicolas George wrote:
>>
>> I do not care at all about ffserver, but the argument of parsing stderr to
>> revuse a warning is completely void, period.
>>
>> Regards,
>
>
> Please no foot stomping of opinions. When you cannot see how changing the
> output can confuse scripts of users then that's ok, but you then shouldn't
> act like a child. Show some more maturity, please.
>

All the text output of the CLI tools goes to stderr, and we have never
considered it to be "stable" for the sake of people that parse
arbitrary log output - and nor should we, because that would be a
terrible situation to be in if we can't even change, add, or adjust
the log output of our tools.

- Hendrik