[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFmpeg, svn:externals and where to go from here

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:54:56AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:11:31PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:09:14PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > > > Just as a reminder to myself (unless someone else implements it), step 3
> > > > > should also depend on at least ffmpeg but possibly also MPlayer being at HEAD
> > > > > to avoid interfering with regression testing.
> > > > 
> > > > Some people may find it really objectionable to have ./configure start
> > > > downloading things on its own accord. A separate script, and just sanity
> > > > checks in ./configure, would probably be better.
> > > 
> > > Those would delete the mp_auto_pull file or just create a checkout
> > > on their own before running configure.
> > > We can ask for ok the first time.
> > 
> > Oh, let's stop wasting time on discussion.
> > Here is a patch, please test it and state anything that annoys you.
> > I'd particularly hear from distro (e.g. Gentoo) maintainers,
> > the intention is that this should not cause issues for you if you
> > somehow prepopulate ffmpeg/ (or just have a dummy one if you somehow
> > can and want to compile against system ffmpeg).
> > 
> > --- configure   (revision 32826)
> > +++ configure   (working copy)
> > @@ -35,6 +35,29 @@
> >  
> > +if test -e ffmpeg/.svn ; then
> > +  echo "You have an outdated FFmpeg SVN checkout in ffmpeg/, please (re)move or replace it"
> > +  exit 1
> > +fi
> > +
> > +if test -e ffmpeg/mp_auto_pull ; then
> > +  if ! (cd ffmpeg && git pull --rebase --ff-only) ; then
> > +    echo "git pull failed, (re)move ffmpeg/mp_auto_pull to disable pulling"
> > +    exit 1
> > +  fi
> > +fi
> > +
> > +if ! test -e ffmpeg ; then
> > +  echo "No FFmpeg checkout, press enter to download one with git or CTRL+C to abort"
> > +  read tmp
> > +  if ! git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg ; then
> 
> wrong repo ;-p

no, the repo is correct.
I can confirm as ffmpeg leader that the official main repository is

git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git

Thats because a few developers have decided to take over ffmpeg.org, so the
repo hosted there is just a fork by a few disgrunted devels.
We are trying to negotiate with them but they pretty much refuse any compromis

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