[Spice-devel] [PATCH] make celt to be optional

[Ron]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:38:37PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Ron <ron at debian.org> wrote:
> > More official than the codec working group declaring it to be in its
> > finally frozen form, or the codec specification being submitted to and
> > approved by the IESG for publication?
> 
> You keep refering to standards, while I am talking about what we can
> actually rely on, the implementation.

Then you have my apologies for omitting a fact from my original list
that I'd assumed was common knowledge:

 - The implementation you are referring to _is_ the normative part
   of the now finalised standard.  That code defines the bitstream.
   Officially.  Any other text is purely informative.

So any deviation from compatibility with that in later releases, or any
other implementation, will be a very serious bug, and cause it to no
longer be an implementation of Opus.   ie. This simply isn't going to
happen now.


> We just need an opus implementation to say clearly that it will be
> bit-stream compatible with future releases. Not play with chances.

It said that by being published as the normative standard :)

You have more chance of your office being struck by a meterorite
shaped like a rhinoceros, with your name written on it in 40 foot
high gold leaf, whistling ride of the valkyries as it descends into
the atmosphere, than of opus breaking bitstream compatibility now.

Really.  It's somewhere on that sort of order of risk.


You're already playing a game of chance.  Think of Opus as your
insurance policy if your luck doesn't hold out as long as you'd like.

 Ron