On 2024/08/01 10:42, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> On Tue Jul 30, 2024 at 09:59:37PM UTC, Brad Smith wrote:
> > On 2024-07-30 1:54 a.m., Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > > I see ffmpeg is on version 7 as a release. If I may ask, why ports are
> > > not jumping higher than 4.4.5 with ffmpeg version?
> > > Is it because it won't compile on OpenBSD?
> > > Is it because some dependencies will not support a higher version of ffmpeg yet?
> >
> > Until downstream projects adjust for API changes you can't update like that.
> > Just updating
> > FFmpeg itself is the easy part.
>
> I would be happy if we could do it like the others. For example
> graphics/ffmpeg/{4,6} and then the installation of libs and includes in
> different places:
>
> --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg4.4 \
> --libdir=/usr/lib/ffmpeg4.4
Please no. Symbols will conflict and so the two versions can't be mixed
in the same address space. Managing this in ports is much harder than
just doing the fixes required for the update.
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