[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu: header and documentation for AVWriter

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Nicolas George (2022-09-07 15:30:09)
> Anton Khirnov (12022-09-02):
> > As I already said to you in private, I do not think the motivation and
> > use cases for this have been sufficiently established.
> > 
> > You claim this will bring massive advantages all over the place. You
> > should support these claims with some actual patches that demonstrate
> > these advantages on some real code.
> 
> I have not claimed “massive advantages all over the place”, I have
> claimed minor advantages all over the places and massive advantages for
> future API.
> 
> With that correction stated, I have already answered you that your
> inability to see the benefits is only proof that your work on FFmpeg is
> on areas that rarely need strings. In fact, if I remember correctly, the
> last time it happened you used the worst possible implementation and we
> had to be multiple persons insisting to get it fixed.
> 
> Therefore, I consider your objection to be orders of magnitude less
> important than the positive feedback I finally had got from people who
> do use strings routinely, who in particular have used BPrint, are
> familiar with the benefits it brought but also the limitations I want to
> fix.

If ad hominem is the best argument you have then this clearly needs a
lot more work.

-- 
Anton Khirnov