[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/26] Major library version bump

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/25/23, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 22:03, Marton Balint wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 21:08, Marton Balint wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, James Almer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/24/2023 12:45 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>>>>>  So to summarize the discussion so far:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  * nobody is strongly arguing for an instability period after the
>>>>>> bump,
>>>>>>     and there are good reasons against it, therefore we should NOT
>>>>>> have
>>>>>>     one
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  * the bump can be done either as bump-then-remove or
>>>>>> remove-then-bump
>>>>>>       * there are advantages and disadvantages for both of those,
>>>>>> nobody
>>>>>>         expressed a strong preference for either, so you can keep this
>>>>>> as
>>>>>>         is
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Please correct me if I misunderstood or missed something, or
>>>>>> somebody
>>>>>>  has a new opinion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the instability period doesn't seem popular, if anyone has some
>>>>> patches
>>>>> for ABI changes (enum value or field offset changes, removing avpriv_
>>>>> functions we forgot about, etc), then please send them asap so i can
>>>>> push
>>>>> them all at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, I can send the frame number changes tomorrow. When do you plan to
>>>> do
>>>> the actual bump? I assumed the last 5.x release should be branched
>>>> first.
>>>
>>> Why? 5.1 was already branched out.
>>
>> And is missing 6 months of development.
>
> So you want us to release both 6.0 and 5.2 at the same time?
> I don't get it.

So user do not need to immediately update code that uses old API to
get new fancy features.

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