[MPlayer-DOCS] letter to distro mplayer packagers?

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Dec 2 01:09:23 CET 2005


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:44:48PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> writes:
> 
> > * help_mp-en.h patch: why you change it like this is beyond me.
> >   -#define MSGTR_CompiledWithRuntimeDetection "Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!\nTo get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.\n"
> >   +#define MSGTR_CompiledWithRuntimeDetection "Compiled for Debian\n"
> >   What's the point of this change? The recommended method is to modify
> >   MPlayer's version string.
> 
> I don't intent to package a binary with this sort of warning. The warning
> is clear, don't use this package :
> 
> recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection

Well, just for best performance, which is true.  Maybe the message is a
bit loud.  What would you suggest instead?

Diego




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