Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Plugins architecture

[Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>]

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Hi Lynne

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 09:22:26PM +0900, Lynne wrote:
> Recently, the issue of plugins was raised.
> 
> Michael pushed a patch to enable out of tree branches to be freely added to
> FFmpeg. I did not very much like the option of having officially-endorsed
> source plugins, as to me, it moved all the burden of maintenance to FFmpeg
> maintainers.

> The commit was reverted, with the tentative agreement to open a discussion
> on the nature of plugins we would like to have.

You force pushed the revert with standing objections 12 minutes
after a "binary choice" you created.
And without warning that you would push something

<michaelni> We can discuss, that was my suggestion, theres no plugin from a non ffmpeg developer, not one so also not one with dlopen and none hiding dlopen and none breaking contract
<Lynne> okay, so option 1?
[13:48] <Lynne> its a binary choice.
[14:00] <fjlogger> [FFmpeg/FFmpeg:master] 1 new commit (https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/compare/67320e0627a3b0210794c8f58e3e6acceb074b5c...85e8e590015e918462031cac21c9c5862a1776b8) pushed by L⁠ynne
<fjlogger> [FFmpeg/FFmpeg] Pull request #20213 merged: WIP: Revert "doc/developer: Basic documentation for Source Plugins" (https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/20213) by L⁠ynne

thx


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