On Saturday, 20 September 2008 at 11:31, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:55:38PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > Note I mentioned the API, which is still changing on a regular > > > basis. For ffmpeg it doesn't actually help that there are no releases > > > ever either. > > > > API is not changing on a regular basis either. If there are incompatible > > changes, they are accompanied by a major version bump. > > The soname changes are for the ABI changes, the API does change more > than often. > > > > > without bumping the major version of the affected library. The > > > > pkg-config support is put properly in place, too, so if you haven't > > > > done that already, it's high time to begin convincing depdendent > > > > projects to start supporting shared FFmpeg. I've already begun > > > > working on fixing the main consumer of FFmpeg, MPlayer, to do that. > > > > > > Unless ffmpeg actually releases anything again I doubt that too many > > > projects will try to depend on an external shared lib whose API > > > stability window is a few weeks. > > > > Actually most of what we have in livna/rpmfusion does work with external > > shared libs. And the API stability window is rather closer to 3 years. > > So the recent moving of the header files which is part of the API was > three years ago and not that summer? While I agree that moving headers around is an API change, it is far less problematic than changing function or structure names. It did bring a long needed consistency to header locations, after all. > Everything that requires an upstream's intervention to make a library > link again is API breakage. Linking was unaffected by that change. > If the consumer app FTBFS it's an API breakage. Well, it was trivial to fix. 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
