Bug#729203: Fwd: Re: Bug#729203: CTTE and reasonable solutions
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:15:07PM -0800, Timothy Gu wrote:
>...
> > On Feb 3, 2014 3:39 PM, "Jan Larres" <jan@majutsushi.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 04/02/14 12:08, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> > > > If both packages are ABI-compatible, then ffmpeg can be designed as a
> > > > drop-in replacement for libav and users will be free to choose.
> > >
> > > As far as I understand it the problem is that it is *not* a drop-in
> > > replacement as far as the libraries are concerned, every package needs
> > > to be recompiled depending on which library should be used. So you would
> > > need two different packages for every program that uses the libraries if
> > > you wanted to offer both in parallel. And I don't think Adrian (or
> > > anyone else) is against ffmpeg as such, it's just that there should be
> > > made a decision which one to use in order to avoid these issues.
> >
> > It's not as bad as you think. FFmpeg has a
> --enable-libav-incompatible-abi configure option. Didn't test the
> effectiveness of it though.
This makes some functions that have different signatures in libav and
ffmpeg API-compatible with libav by switching them to the libav one.
It does not change the sonames of the ffmpeg libraries.
cu
Adrian
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