On Friday, 19 September 2008 at 09:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:34 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
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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.