[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Built-in documentation API

[Nicolas George]

Marton Balint (12020-08-23):
> I don't like the idea of compiling the full help text into the binaries.
> Libraries are already huge binaries, adding the help text increases the
> binary size even more.

Why do you consider this an issue? It does not take more disk space in
the binaries than in separate files.

>			 If we really want the ffmpeg API to access help text,
> it should read it from help files installed with the libraries.

That would only work if everything is at the place specified at
build-time, or require a configuration system, both causes significant
problems.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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