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| author | Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> | 2016-08-06 12:44:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> | 2016-08-29 22:27:52 +0200 |
| commit | adbf1c905447ca95a5cb7578ec3cf87da97f5025 (patch) | |
| tree | 926eb780a02706fdb9f9d6ac897a60fd013770ab /libavutil | |
| parent | 11a631d4a76859e09cd413856e32df6363d25eea (diff) | |
| download | ffmpeg-adbf1c905447ca95a5cb7578ec3cf87da97f5025.tar.gz | |
avutil/version: Mention similarities and differences to semver
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
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| -rw-r--r-- | libavutil/version.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/version.h b/libavutil/version.h index 3e94a23ca3..dec1b1b01c 100644 --- a/libavutil/version.h +++ b/libavutil/version.h @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ * Useful to check and match library version in order to maintain * backward compatibility. * + * The FFmpeg libraries follow a versioning sheme very similar to + * Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/) + * The difference is that the component called PATCH is called MICRO in FFmpeg + * and its value is reset to 100 instead of 0 to keep it above or equal to 100. + * Also we do not increase MICRO for every bugfix or change in git master. + * * @{ */ |