[MPlayer-users] SVN v Stable

[CD Baric]

On 7/12/07, ajaxas <ajaxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:34:40 +0200
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Alas, it's not ;) Funny things happen from time to time, of course.
>
> But there are severe improvements in the HEAD compared to rc1, so I'd encourage
> usage of SVN access.
>
> Just read the changelog:

(Amazing list of improvements)

Wow!

That says it all.

I will download the latest SVN and start building.

Thanks again guys.

CD 'Bar' Baric