[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 4/5] lavfi/graphparser: reimplement avfilter_graph_parse* using new API

[Nicolas George]

James Almer (12023-01-23):
> What's the difference between a RFC and a "I have this idea, what do you
> think of this mock up?" email? That if suggestions are made to improve or
> change said approach, then at worst what happens is that the writer wasted
> /his/ time writing 30k lines of which a fifth might need to be redone.

You are assuming that somebody who already wrote 30K of code (not even
lines) will be as ready to make changes that require rewriting 27K than
somebody who did not already write the code.

We had the exact problem with channel layouts: the structure should have
been refcounted, but since the code was written without consulting
people who would have to use it and neglected necessary features, it was
not done, and since the code was already written the change was not
seriously considered.

Furthermore, communicating early would save time to somebody who might
be at the early stages of working on the same thing.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George