[Spice-devel] [spice-server v2 8/9] reds: add support to ranks for video codecs

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 09:18:45AM +0100, Victor Toso wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 05:23:28PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> >
> > My main problem with introducing the priority now is that we have
> > potential uses for it in the future, but I don't think we have users for
> > it right now. So maybe it will be the right thing to do when these
> > potential uses materialize, maybe we will want to approach things
> > differently.
> 
> I agree that we might want to handle things differently in the future
> but I don't see why this would limit it to have it now and improve it
> later.

The reason why I'm being conservative here is that as soon as you expose
this as an admin setting which can be tweaked externally, then it
becomes ABI. And I'm not really comfortable with setting in stone an ABI
for which we don't have a user at the moment.

Christophe
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