[FFmpeg-devel] Patch which requires a new library

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, 20:16 Sergio Garcia Murillo, <
sergio.garcia.murillo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 7:02 PM Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Le torstaina 7. maaliskuuta 2024, 19.30.46 EET Sergio Garcia Murillo a
> > écrit :
> > > > The point is we don't want to use the external lib.
> > >
> > > For what? This is aws lib implementing the aws s3 signatures and using
> > > ffmpeg crypto libs.
> >
> > For not depending on an external library, especially one so small and so
> > specific that it is very unlikely to be shipped by the vast majority of
> > FFmpeg's downstreams.
> >
>
> That seems fair enough, however the downside is that sigv4 lib is supported
> and maintained by aws and it has a proper testing suite.
>

As with all these "SDKs", they are supported until the vendor gets bored
and/or the developers leave or get promoted.

Kieran