On Friday, 19 September 2008 at 09:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:34 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: [...] > > Just to quote one such example: ffmpeg is a fast moving target, and > > any project depending on the lib API is cutting a checkout, patching > > it a up and using it for its own purposes. Replacing these internal > > ffmpegs with a system ffmpeg is a nightmare or even impossible w/o > > rewriting the app interface to it. Given that ffmpeg and friends fall > > under the patent forbidden class we don't see that directly in Fedora, > > but this issue is still out there. > Well, ffmpeg is a special case wrt. many issues. If they were doing a > proper job, they would release properly versioned packages with properly > versioned APIs, which could be installed in parallel. They(we) don't have the manpower to do proper releases, but we do maintain properly versioned API/ABI. The position of a release manager for FFmpeg has been open for months. Many people complained, but nobody is willing to do the legwork. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann Livna http://rpm.livna.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
