[FFmpeg-devel] On in-tree external headers

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 06:59:42PM +0000, Mark Thompson wrote:
> On 05/11/17 18:42, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > 2017-11-05 19:35 GMT+01:00 Mark Thompson <sw at jkqxz.net>:
> >> On 05/11/17 18:28, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >>> 2017-11-05 15:24 GMT+01:00 Mark Thompson <sw at jkqxz.net>:
> >>>> On 30/10/17 19:51, Mark Thompson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> "No external headers may be included in the ffmpeg tree."
> >>>
> >>> So you suggest to remove the Nvidia header?
> >> If that specific policy is adopted then it would have to be.
> > 
> > Then I don't think this policy is useful.
> > 
> > Iirc, there is a second external header, I have never used
> > either of those but judging from user response, both features
> > are heavily used making a removal a no-go.
> 
> Ok, sure.
> 
> How about:
> 

> "No external headers may be added to the ffmpeg tree, unless they are for AviSynth or Nvidia."

This would be unfair, iam against this

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