[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 24/24] libs: bump major version for all libraries

[Martin Storsjö]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, James Almer wrote:

> On 1/26/2024 1:52 PM, Martin Storsjö wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, James Almer wrote:
>> 
>>> On 1/26/2024 1:44 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 2:48 PM James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   doc/APIchanges                | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavcodec/version.h          | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavcodec/version_major.h    | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavdevice/version.h         | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavdevice/version_major.h   | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavfilter/version.h         | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavfilter/version_major.h   | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavformat/version.h         | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavformat/version_major.h   | 2 +-
>>>>>   libavutil/version.h           | 6 +++---
>>>>>   libpostproc/version.h         | 2 +-
>>>>>   libpostproc/version_major.h   | 2 +-
>>>>>   libswresample/version.h       | 2 +-
>>>>>   libswresample/version_major.h | 2 +-
>>>>>   libswscale/version.h          | 2 +-
>>>>>   libswscale/version_major.h    | 2 +-
>>>>>   16 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
>>>>> index e477ed78e0..60711379a1 100644
>>>>> --- a/doc/APIchanges
>>>>> +++ b/doc/APIchanges
>>>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>>>> -The last version increases of all libraries were on 2023-02-09
>>>>> +The last version increases of all libraries were on 2024-01-xx
>>>>>
>>>>>   API changes, most recent first:
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/libavcodec/version.h b/libavcodec/version.h
>>>>> index 0fae3d06d3..8c3d476003 100644
>>>>> --- a/libavcodec/version.h
>>>>> +++ b/libavcodec/version.h
>>>>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
>>>>>
>>>>>   #include "version_major.h"
>>>>>
>>>>> -#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR  38
>>>>> +#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR   0
>>>>>   #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO 100
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> should we use this bump opportunity to reset MICRO to 0 too?
>>>
>>> It's an option. I don't recall if we decided anything about it last 
>>> bump or during a meeting. And i don't know how much code out there 
>>> still bothers to check for it to distinguish projects. But i guess 
>>> that after so many bumps, any existing library user has long since 
>>> stopped looking at it.
>> 
>> VLC 3 (which still is the latest stable version) still has got such 
>> checks around. VLC git master also still does have some checks, but only 
>> for deciding which "AVPROVIDER" to print in log messages, no function 
>> differences.
> VLC 3 surely wont compile and link with current ffmpeg, right? Or did 
> they port it to the decoupled input/output decoder and encoder API, and 
> even the new channel layout API?

They do backport updates to ffmpeg to VLC 3 in general, although it seems 
that they're still pretty far behind (at ffmpeg 4.4.4) indeed.

// Martin