Mention to send a patch before changing API or ABI.

Originally committed as revision 25373 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
15 years ago · 7c0460496b
parent 9446b4bbbc
commit 7c0460496b
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--- a/doc/developer.texi
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@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ should also be avoided if they don't make the code easier to understand.
   Also if you have doubts about splitting or not splitting, do not hesitate to
   ask/discuss it on the developer mailing list.
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-   Do not change behavior of the program (renaming options etc) without
-   first discussing it on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list. Do not remove
-   functionality from the code. Just improve!
+   Do not change behavior of the program (renaming options etc) or public
+   API or ABI without first discussing it on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list.
+   Do not remove functionality from the code. Just improve!

   Note: Redundant code can be removed.
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