[MPlayer-users] Why not make an installer?

[Jörg]

Hi there,

Disclaimer: I had all versions of mplayer running since 0.5 on different 
systems. I'm not saying it is any difficult for me to install.

[Sorry can't insert quote-marks. Donno why]
"It's not always as simple as ./configure, make, make 
install. IMO many people don't have the knowledge or patience to go through 
the README. Even if it's not that fun to do it would make MPlayer 
considerably better."

Yes, usually there are some packages missing. Especially the -dev-packages. So 
"./configure, make, make" is seldom enough. But that's true for most programs 
under linux and not spefic to mplayer. So I agree that a program like 
"InstallShield for Linux" would make more people use mplayer (or even linux), 
but can't it be solved more genericaly than bothering the mplayer developers 
with this?

Jörg