[Buildroot] [PATCH] new package: libav

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Jul 6 07:22:23 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> My understanding is that libav is a fork of ffmpeg. So, it will
 Thomas> probably become more and more different than ffmpeg, in which case
 Thomas> separate packages are obviously the right way of handling this.

 Thomas> In the mean time, as they are exactly similar (at least in terms of
 Thomas> build mechanism and options), I wanted to suggest doing a modular/tinyx
 Thomas> style of selection. We might switch to a separate package when needed.
 Thomas> But on the other hand, having a separate package is probably more clear.

Yes. Also if they both use the same binary/library names, then we need
to ensure that you cannot enable both at once.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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