[MPlayer-users] Release 1.1 first packaging attempt

[Giacomo Comes]

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:04:57PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> we decided it is time to do a release again.
> However there are two problems with that
> 1) We generally need a lot of testing to check that there are no too
> serious issues.
> 2) The usual people seem to have no time, FFmpeg has switched to git
> etc. so some knowledge on how to make the release tarball got lost.
> 
> So I just made the first try of creating one from current trunk.
> I'd like as many people as possible to test compiling and running.

No problems compiling. 32-bit and 64-bit.

> I'd also like people to check that the right stuff is included
> (i.e. the HTML DOCS are there and work as expected, there are no
> .svn or .git directories etc.).

I'm wondering how can I generate the single html documentation.
In the past the steps were:
  cd DOCS/xml
  make html-single-en
but at some point the Makefile in DOCS/xml has disappeared
and I haven't found anywere a description on how to
generate the html documentation.

> I also have not decided on the formats, though I tend towards not making
> a .tar.gz available but only a .tar.bz2 and possibly .tar.xz.
> Opinions on that are welcome, too.

I really don't see any point in creating bz2 tarball anymore.
xz format takes less space and decompress faster compared to bz2.
I would suggest to make a gz tarball for backward compatibility and
xz for better compression.
Several projects are not releasing bz2 tarball anymore (vlc, ogg, vorbis, etc).

Giacomo