[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ipfsgateway: Remove default gateway

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 06:35:04PM +0200, Tomas Härdin wrote:
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>
> This goes especially for formats like MXF, which I have made the case
> on here multiple times that we should not maintain our own decoder for,
> but rather pull in bmx. And everytime I have suggested this it has been
> made clear that such patches would be rejected. And so MXF developer
> effort is split.

Is there a need for mxf (de) muxing without other containers ?
If the awnser is (mostly) no then the problem is not FFmpeg wanting its
own but rather that someone maintains mxf code outside ffmpeg.


>
> Code is a liability. We should seek to have as little of it as
> possible.

Look back at tesla, "vertical integration is a liability", that sounds
wrong. Quite the opposit, companies that split everything out seem to do
significantly worse. It doesnt mean everything should be done internally
but simply because some external work exists doesnt mean we need to use it
and then have to maybe maintain a codebase that we do not know and that
noone is willing to maintain and that noone from FFmpeg even has write
access to. Next some platforms may carry old versions of that external
code, some might not carry it at all. It can become a mess when we need
a specific feature and when distros like debian hava a policy that requires
shared libs to be used when avaiable. So debian would remove a internal
copy of a lib and force their shared lib to be used. At least that was
the policy when i last looked years ago.
And if we had a internal copy we would also have to do full security
maintaince of that internal copy. Again that is code noone in FFmpeg
knows.

for libxml2 these problems are less likely to hit us as we likely never need a
"new xml feature" but for a (de)muxer we quite likely will need the
latests version on every platform.
Also we have regression tests, external libs make that impossible
as the version of external libs can change the behavior. Again this
is a issue for mxf maybe less so libxml. You can also see that we have no
tests involving  any of the external encoder libs, for that very reason.
With each external lib that is needed for core features this would
become a quickly growing problem

thx

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Awnsering whenever a program halts or runs forever is
On a turing machine, in general impossible (turings halting problem).
On any real computer, always possible as a real computer has a finite number
of states N, and will either halt in less than N cycles or never halt.
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