libdvdread slight API breakage

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Sun Aug 31 11:45:18 UTC 2008


On Monday, 28 July 2008 at 00:16, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 July 2008 at 11:11, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 July 2008, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > Since libdvdnav (and libdvdread) have been forked by one of MPlayer's
> > > developers, there's been a significant bugfixing effort going on.
> > > Unfortunately, the new upstream broke the API a bit. While before
> > > you'd use
> > > #include <dvdread/dvd_reader.h>
> > > now you have to use
> > > #include <libdvdread/dvd_reader.h>.
> > 
> > Any ideas why they did that
> 
> To avoid clash with MPlayer's internal libdvdread copy. I'm trying
> to convince Nico to reverse that and change MPlayer's internal copy
> instead (or remove it alltogether) before the next release.

And I've been successful. Patch is already in SVN and the upcoming
4.1.3 release will keep the old include paths. MPlayer has already
been fixed, too.
Sorry for the extra work it caused you.

Regards,
R.

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