[haiku-commits] Re: BRANCH orangejua-github.media [3cd56de] src/kits/media headers/os/media

  • From: Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 21:36:07 +0200

2013/10/19 orangejua-github.media <community@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> added 5 changesets to branch 'refs/remotes/orangejua-github/media'
> old head: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> new head: 3cd56ded1698018803f0b2435f849683eb2f58fa
> overview: https://github.com/orangejua/haiku/compare/3cd56de

> 77460c0: Introduce type perf_time_t and use it throughout the MediaKit.
>
>   * To make it easier to discern whether a parameter or variable
>     holds a time value in real or performance time, define a type
>     perf_time_t. It is simply a typedef to bigtime_t.
>
>   * Use perf_time_t in parameters of MediaKit APIs and
>     implementations.
>

I find this change a bit weird given that performance time values are
pretty much everywhere in the media kit...
The question is more which parameter or variable is a real time value.
Also changing the API naming won't make it easier with addons and apps
which will still use the usual naming.

Bye,
Jérôme

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