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On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:09:17 -0500 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:57 AM Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:08:22 +0200 |
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> > Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > It is not GStreamer fault that ffmpeg breaks API and ABI without |
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> > > parallel installability, much less so the distro maintainers of |
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> > > it. If you/upstream don't make it parallel installable, then this |
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> > > is what you get. |
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> > Are you, seriously, suggesting this is the solution to all problems |
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> > here ? |
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> > |
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> It isn't the only solution, but it is one sane upgrade path. You |
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> can't expect everybody to update their software overnight when the API |
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> changes. That means you have to support the old API for a while when |
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> you introduce a new one, otherwise you end up with some software that |
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> doesn't work with the old version, and some software that doesn't work |
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> with the new version. |
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These days, only symbols/constants that have been deprecated (and |
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marked as such) for a couple of releases are removed. This means people |
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see warnings for more than one year before seeing them gone for good. |
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The problem here is not "overnight changes" but rather consumers not |
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paying attention to those warnings, or worse, nobody ever seeing those |
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because it's unmaintained. |
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Alexis. |
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