[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] fate: Make it possible to have alternative reference files

[Alexander Strasser]

On 2024-10-18 16:36 +0200, Lynne via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On 18/10/2024 14:41, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel
> > <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> > > This caused differences
> > > with 2 fate tests depending on the zlib version used.
> >
> > 2 fate tests?
> > https://fate.ffmpeg.org/report.cgi?time=20241016173824&slot=x86_32-msvc14-dll-md-windows-native
> >
> > This entire approach feels extremely brittle for the future.
> >
> > - Hendrik
>
> Yeah, definitely.
> These days, other libraries like miniz are getting used as well, so
> hardcoding each case separately is no better than what we have currently.

Hmm not sure about the build from Hendrik. This was with a build with
zlib and compression level 0?

What I tried to do and describe is to account for a bug in older zlib
versions. I didn't want to have alternative refs for every implementation.
I actually oppose to that!


  Alexander