Il giorno dom, 12/10/2008 alle 01.02 +0200, RVM ha scritto: > El S?bado, 11 de Octubre de 2008 16:02, Andrew Savchenko escribi?: > > Hi, > > > > On Saturday 11 October 2008 13:15, Manuel Reimer wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Release 1.0rc2 is pretty old. Is there any chance to see a new > > > release soon, now as the current release is older than one year? > > > > Have you tried the svn head? > > I normally use the svn version, but I also think a new release is necessary. > The problem I see is that linux distros usually include the latest version > available in the mplayer web, it seems they are reluctant to include a > version taken from svn (for instance I think the new version of ubuntu will > still include 1.0rc2). So many, many people would still use a very old > version just because that's the one that comes with their distros. > > I know, I read, the problem is that currently there's no one that could make a > new release, but... a suggestion: what about to make a quick source-only > release? Just take the current code from svn, change the version to 1.0rc3, > generate the html docs, and upload the package to the web. Let the distros' > maintainers to do the binary packages. > why should we release something just to workaround the total idiocy of distribution packagers? The problem is backwards
