[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Thu Sep 28 19:13:37 EEST 2023


Rémi Denis-Courmont (12023-09-28):
> Thanks for making my point.

Stealing the other person rhetoric device does not make you right.

> That does not change the fact that it won't make it any popular, and thus your 
> postulate is wrong.

It reach more popular included in FFmpeg than if users have to download
it separately. Nobody honest would seriously try to argue the opposite.

> It should be blatantly obvious to anybody with a modicum of modesty that "fit 
> nicely together" is intrinsically a very subjective value judgement, not a 
> technical argument in favor or disfavor of anything.

What you are describing here is your “does not belong”.

“Fit nicely together” means it allows to do things that were not
possible previously or required more work and were more fragile
(pipelines and shell scripts). It is a technical argument.

-- 
  Nicolas George
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