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From: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Request for --disable-deprecated configure option
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 20:53:30 +0200
Message-ID: <20250404185330.GS4991@pb2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPLAST8WawWJFMNubxBKu37sLowY5gFOsDOGb_fmH_6X9ktbg@mail.gmail.com>


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Hi

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:02:01AM +0200, Kacper Michajlow wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It would be nice to have configure time ability to disable all
> `FF_API_*` for testing purposes.
> 
> As we know not all code can be marked to emit Wdeprecated.
> Specifically #defines doesn't emit any warning and it's easy to miss
> such depreciation before it's actually removed.
> 
> The breakage of course is not big, but the main issue is that the
> current release version of a ffmpeg user won't be compatible with
> ffmpeg after API bump, without any period for transition.
> 
> --disable-deprecated could be used for testing and ensuring that
> (next) API bump goes smoothly. For both ffmpeg and its users.

I think such a option (in some form) would be a good idea

thx

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-04-04 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-03  9:02 Kacper Michajlow
2025-04-03  9:39 ` Martin Storsjö
2025-04-03 13:14   ` Kacper Michajlow
2025-04-04 18:53 ` Michael Niedermayer [this message]

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