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

[Clément Bœsch]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:53:36PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> The FFmpeg Subversion repository has been set readonly, we will not be
> receiving any more updates from it.  The time has come to rethink the
> MPlayer project structure and the way we handle external libraries that
> we pull into our source tree.
> 
> I'm undecided what to do with FFmpeg.  I'd personally move towards
> eliminating embedded library copies, but not everybody agrees.  I will
> rev my patches for running staged configures and reusing the FFmpeg
> build system more instead of duplicating it badly when I find the time.
> 
> Then there is libdvdread and libdvdnav.  There are many shared devs, but
> the project is not under our direct control and we don't know if there
> will be a git migration or not.
> 
> libdvdread/libdvdnav sees orders of magnitude less changes than FFmpeg.
> IIRC (but please don't take my word for it and doublecheck) current
> versions are widely available in distributions now.
> 
> I would suggest just dropping the svn:externals and using system versions
> of these libraries.  The value added by the embedded copies is small, but
> the complication is considerable due to the ties to infrastructure of
> projects that are separate from MPlayer.
> 

I personally agree with removing them from the tree and use system one.

Though, I'm not sure to understand what you plane to do for the FFmpeg
repository, but using the system one will clearly lead to problems, there
is too much potential different packaged versions of it…

-- 
Clément B.