[MPlayer-users] Compiling SVN; was: Jerky 1080p h264 playback

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 17:49 -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2010 00:07:11 +0300
> Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> 
> > > You forgot to mention that your git repo is a remedy (sorry,
> > > couldn't resist).
> > 
> > You seem to be hostile towards the git repo for reasons that are
> > unrelated to how well it works.
> 
> Actually, he just seems to be mocking you for almost always suggesting
> it.

And what reason is there to "just" mock someone for suggesting it in
cases where using it is likely to solve the problem? The git repo has
worked better than svn in the majority of cases where I have suggested
it to people with specific problems. And it certainly has a lot better
VDPAU support than svn.

> > Mentioning it as a possible remedy for VDPAU problems is something you
> > should also do if you really want to help users.
> 
> Merging any GIT improvements into the official SVN repo is something you
> should also do if you really want to help users...

How would that help users? The improvements are already available to
them in git. About the only benefit would be to the users who are using
svn for historical reasons and don't know they would be better off with
git. And solving that by getting most of the users to switch to git
could be done with a lot less effort than by trying to move all the
changes to svn (which is in practice unrealistic).