[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/2]Expose osd.message through luahttp

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:09:42 +0200, Rémi Duraffort <ivoire at videolan.org>
wrote:
>> Allowing people to use a broken API from outside of the VLC internals
>> makes it impossible to ever fix it.
> 
> Not really in this case as the API proposed by the luahttp module is
> really high level : changing the underlying API is still easy.

I'm not very happy, but I can accept using a potentially broken API
internally. But I am concerned that it gets used by external LUA scripts or
external HTTP client applications...

> Also fixing thread-safety does not mean that you need to change the API.

That's hard to say before someone tries to refine the API.

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