[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffprobe: fix XML rendering, review XML layout

Tobias Rapp t.rapp at noa-archive.com
Mon Oct 16 11:47:07 EEST 2023


On 15/10/2023 04:59, Stefano Sabatini wrote:

> On date Sunday 2023-10-15 03:09:14 +0200, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
>
>> Isn't a change like that practically an ABI break, and thus would need to
>> happen on a major bump?
> Yes, but in practice we are not tracking changes in the XML format,
> and major bumps are more related to ABI changes rather than to
> application level functionality, and probably there are not so many
> users using the XML format anyway.

I'm processing XML-formatted output of ffprobe in some of my 
applications, including tags but not side_data.From my side it feels ok 
to update these elements with a minor bump only.

Regards, Tobias


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