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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:29:02PM +0100, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote on Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:10:47 +0100:
> 
> > 2) if ffmpeg/ does not exist, do a git clone and create a mp_auto_pull
> > file
> 
> As a normal user (compiling by myself, but not developing) I always found it
> annyoing when the downloaded source could not be compiled without some
> special developer tools (git in that case).
> 
> The great thing about MPlayer sources until now was that it brought along
> everything necessary to build it.
> 
> Could the nightly »normal source snapshot« please already contain a pulled
> ffmepg (without mp_auto_pull and .git*). I'm sure lots of normal users would
> be grateful.

I agree, but I think so far not even FFmpeg itself has snapshots anymore...