Re: [arch-dev-public] ffmpeg and an x264 upgrade

On Nov 8, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:

Hey guys, I wanted to upgrade ffmpeg to the latest snapshot. Two things came up:

a) Is there a reason we use date stamps for ffmpeg's version? It seems more straightforward to use the revision number. Any problems with me switching to that?

Seems fine to me to switch. I chose date stamps is because I could then standardize across different software using different version control formats, and so you can easily tell how stale a snapshot was by looking at the pkgver. A big upside of the revision number choice you suggest is that it's a more precise mapping to particular source, which is compelling. - P