[MPlayer-dev-eng] [POLICY] clarify conditions for functionality removal

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Thu Feb 9 12:15:52 CET 2006


Hi

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:17:20AM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2006/2/9, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net>:
> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > And don't simply revert a commit that is obviously under
> > > controversial dispute without even waiting _a few hours_ for me to
> > > answer your last email.  This is beyond rude.
> >
> > Agreed, it is. It is also precisely the sort of behaviour which would be
> > 'allowed', with respect to feature removal, under the current phrasing
> > of the rule under discussion. After all, discussion of his proposed
> > change (reverting your change) has taken place...
> 
> Indeed, I like giving practical examples. I'm just testing the
> procedure. I think that I am going to remove XVideo functions from
> x11_common next time ;)

agree, i suggest furthermore to replac mplayer.c by
main(){
    printf("use mencoder -ovc raw -oac pcm -o /dev/stdout | od -x\n");
}

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-- 
Michael




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