[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Soft Works (2022-02-09 07:19:23)
> 
> Sure. Don't understand my reply as an objection I don't even know what
> xvmc is (or was). I rather see the burden and effort that it takes 
> to retain all those compatibility paths and at the same time how it
> is blocking innovation and progress. 
> Compatibility is important - without question, but doing it in a way
> that libs from different versions can be combined, is a somewhat crazy
> endeavor. I keep wondering who would be the developer whose dreams
> this might fulfil.. 
> The discussion about that seems to have gotten stuck about whether
> to merge libs together or not, or how, but I haven't followed in 
> detailed, so please excuse the question (which has probably been
> covered before): 
> Why can't ffmpeg simply declare that starting from version X, it
> will be a requirement that all libs are from the same version?
> (of course after equalizing)

That is pretty offtopic in this thread =p

That said, in my opinion
- the extra flexibility is useful
- the actual effort required to allow mismatching versions is overstated
- the things this mainly affects are various private interfaces, which
  IMO are a mispattern and should not exist anyway

-- 
Anton Khirnov