On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Ricardo Garcia <rick.g777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Forking libavcodec and making a nice C++ pluggable interface to it. If > you want your module, just compile it using the "insert your codec > library here" API and have the plugin in .so format. I think FORKING ffmpeg is a very very bad idea. A bad use of resources and a very bad thing for Fedora as a project to get behind. Forking upstream codebases is absolutely NOT what we should be doing. As a project, we must engage with the existing ffmpeg developers and offer to do the work necessary to make the ffmpeg codebase flexible enough to meet our needs. Doing an end run around the upstream developers is not how we should do things. Unless the ffmpeg developers show a complete unwillingness to work with us, then I will actively and vocally discourage any call to fork the codebase. Its not clear to me if there has been a reasonable discussion inside ffmpeg about the possibility of restructuring the codebase if there were developers interested in doing it as part of the ffmpeg roadmap. -jef -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
