On 12 Oct 2008, at 13:20, Manuel Reimer wrote: > Nico Sabbi wrote: >> why should we release something just to workaround the total idiocy >> of >> distribution packagers? The problem is backwards > > At least for me (and probably also for distributors) anything which is > not publically released is *unstable*. I, myself, will *not* download > the sourcecode from SVN as I need a *stable release* to work with. If > you really plan to not release a new version in future, then I think I > should better look for another player... :-( Hi there, I'm quite the Mplayer n00b - if you search the archives (which you didn't before posting your original question) you will see I've only posted on a handful of occasions; I read this list for 10 minutes with my morning cuppa and don't pretend in any way to be an expert. Yet I appreciate your above statement to be a misunderstanding of the situation. Packagers are surely capable of understanding that MPlayer has no policy of "stable" releases and that they're expected to base their releases on SVN. End users should use a distro with a decent MPlayer packaging policy. If their distro doesn't have a decent MPlayer packaging policy then they should use SVN and bitch at their distro to support MPlayer better. The MPlayer developers don't have the resources to produce "releases" - since so many distros seem to depend upon MPlayer, this is a way in which so many of them could contribute to the project. Stroller.
