[MPlayer-users] SVN v Stable

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 12 July 2007 at 01:29, Jack Smith wrote:
> On 7/11/07, CD Baric <cdbaric at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I keep reading that people should try SVN before reporting a problem.
> >
> > I make pretty heavy use of both mplayer and mencoder but both are
> > built from the stable 1.0 rc1 branch - I haven't even bothered with
> > the security patch because I am workng on a home network of which I am
> > the only user.
> >
> > Am I missing increased performance and superior utility by staying
> > with the stable branch?
> >
> > Thanks for your excellent work guys.
> 
> I have no official standing, so this is just a wild guess.  Do you
> suppose they don't want to do any work on the stable version if it's
> already fixed in the new one?  :-)

There's no "stable" branch. We don't have enough manpower to maintain
a "stable" branch. SVN should as stable as the releases.

Regards,
R.

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