[MPlayer-cvslog] r19789 - trunk/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:05:51AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:23:15PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:05:55PM +0200, diego wrote:
> > > 
> > > --- trunk/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt	(original)
> > > +++ trunk/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt	Sun Sep 10 14:05:54 2006
> > > @@ -88,6 +88,13 @@
> > >  last "release" version of FFmpeg, which is quite old and will usually not
> > >  function correctly with MPlayer.
> > >  
> > > +Support for binary codecs MUST be present but it MUST NOT result in a hard
> > > +dependency on a binary codecs package. MPlayer is fully functional without
> > > +external binary codecs. If you package binary codecs yourself, package the
> > > +essential codecs package, not the all codecs package.
> > 
> > IMO this makes no sense. Only i386 arch supports binary codecs...
> 
> No.  We also have binary codecs for PPC and Alpha, they also exist for
> SPARC.  Windows DLLs only work on x86, but binary codecs are more than
> that.

The non-windows binary codecs are useful for what..? Anything?

> > Does this mean packages for all other archs are nonconformant? :)
> 
> I'm fine with changing this to SHOULD.

I just think it should be a little more clear at the very least. :) If
this requirement is included it should be an arch-specific requirement
mentioning the full arch name (OS + cpu) or else just say that binary
codecs should be supported to whatever degree is possible on the host
arch/OS.

Rich