[Ffmpeg-devel] [RFC] ffmpeg-windows mailinglist?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:57:29AM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> Herv? W. wrote:
> >On 01/08/06, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> wrote:
> >>Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:35:41PM  0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Michael Niedermayer said:
> >>>>
> >>>>> maybe we should create $subj?
> >>>>>
> >>>> FYI, I will not subscribe to such a list.
> >>>
> >>> Neither will I, but I'm all for creating it.
> >
> >So nobody is going to subscribe to that list? Which effectively means
> >you'll be throwing away the work that already has gone into cygwin and
> >mingw support.
> >Patches from outside, to fix what the regular ffmpeg development
> >breaks, should presumably go to that new list? And with nobody there
> >to review them they just go to the archives to rot.
> >
> Actually I think it's a grand idea. I would definitely subscribe to that
> list. Any windows whiners (like me) that come ask here could be told to
> go ask there, and only there, instead of being ignored or flamed. I'll
> host a page with windows-only patches and guides to building ffmpeg
> under windows. I imagine (hope) that from time to time some real ffmpeg
> developer will be nice enough to check there and see if there's
> something that could potentially be applied into the real ffmpeg.

Patches can still be posted here after they have passed some initial
testing and review from the Windows crowd...

Diego