Tracking of planned breaking changes

[dvdsk]

I want gather all breaking changes and release them together with a porting/update guide and announcement on users forum and reddit.

This main post will be updated when new ideas are added. Each item links to an individual issues. If you wish to discuss a single change please do that in its linked issue.

• Overhaul features to highlight split between codecs and containers. Clearly document the new features. (Issue and Proposal) Rodio's features can be confusing #539
• Rename member function to be in line with std (fixes a lint too) Rename Sink::empty #562
• Make new_mp4 easier to use Refactor: Remove Mp4Type #612
• Remove the need to keep the stream around when using sink: Remove the need to keep the stream around #613
• Reduce public API, should have no impact on users Remove field access from EmptyCallback #615
• Remove duplicate source Skippable (same as Stoppable) Remove Stoppable or Skippable they are identical #616
• Remove duplicate functionality (DataConverter is a subset of SampleConverter) DataConverter is a subset of SampleConverter #617
• Rename BltFilter to Filter Rename BLTFilter to Filter. #618
• Make it possible to change the buffer size of the OutputStream Configurable buffer size #512 should probably take this opportunity to unify all the factories with a builder.
• Allow using the Sink as a 'playlist' Tracking issue for redesigning the Sink API #619
• Remove wrapping source's factories Sources that are part of the Source trait should not have public factories. #622

[dvdsk]

@est31 Please let me know if you have other items that could be on here or object to some of the entries.

[dvdsk]

@tomaka Would you be okay with the changes above? Thanks to est32 I have been able to maintain rodio for the past 9 months. Given the breaking nature of the changes listed I would like to have your blessing before I continue.