[MPlayer-users] Re: MacOS X "second-class citizen" :-(

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Mon Dec 6 18:46:54 CET 2004


Hi,
> >>I have gotten the same feeling about Mac OS X being "second-class
> >>citizen"
> >>Shame!
> >
> >if i may be so blundt, it's a second-class citizen because it's
> >non-free and full of broken stuff (nonstandard locations, bloated gui,
> >c compiler that conflicts with standard c, ...) yet worshipped by
> >thousands of stupid fanbois.
> Yet, Windows seems to have this problem too, yet the Windows version of 
> MPlayer seems to get a lot more attention than many of the requests for 
> OS X help.

Very simple reason: I can simple get out my old windows CD, install it
on my PC and test my patch/try to reproduce the bug.
If you tell me how I should do that with MacOS X you'd get at least as
much support from me as windows users get.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger




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