[MPlayer-dev-eng] release alongside FFmpeg

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 02 February 2009 17:19:15 Nico Sabbi wrote:
> On Monday 02 February 2009 17:10:48 Georgi Petrov wrote:
> > > Is it so important what diSAstros package?
> >
> > Yes. Perhaps most people use exactly what their distro packages
> > and very few download from svn and compile. Imagine what would be
> > like to have for example mass deployment of VDPAU one year after
> > it's ready? It would be a waste.
> >
> > >Whether users report bugs preset in a  1-day old or 1-year old
> > > release is irrelevant: they'll be still using old code.
> >
> > Well, changing to a 2 week-release cycle and starting from 1.0
> > means that most distros will send updates to all users few
> > hours/days after a new 1.x release is released.
> >
> > Then the answer to "I have xyz bug in my Ubuntu's MPlayer-1.10"
> > would be "run apt-get update, because it's fixed in 1.11".
>
> no, in 2 weeks there's still a 13-days timeframe during which the
> code won't be in sync and we'll have to waste time and bandwidth
> repeating the usual stuff.
> Trying to fit with the habits of packagers leads nowhere IMO, for
> this reason I *never* do releases

One more thought: we could even ask packagers to stop distributing 
mplayer with their distributions, especially considering that they 
distribute something castrated that is next to useless.