[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 22:20, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> 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.
>
> And when do you stop doing this?

After 6.0 tagged.

> Also, as 5.1 is LTS, is 5.2 LTS too?
>

No, its not.

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