[FFmpeg-user] Next Release

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Jan 29 21:37:58 EET 2021



Am 29.01.21 um 20:28 schrieb Carl Zwanzig:
> On 1/29/2021 11:00 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> most open source projects don't provide binaries
> 
> Maybe yes, maybe no. Most of the FOSS software I use* comes as compiled 
> executables, often with an install process. And there is a fair 
> difference logically between libraries and executables; the former are 
> more often distributed as source and the latter more often as compiled 
> (and I'm sure there are exceptions both ways). Without a strong survey, 
> it's probably impossibly to quantify.
> 
> *(On the machine I'm using right now- firefox, thunderbird, putty, 
> handbrake, openshell, greenshot, freefilesync, _vlc_, ImageMagick, 
> PSpad, etc etc; all installed from pre-compiled packages from that 
> project.)

on the machine i am using right now i type "dnf install whatever", works 
fine for 15 years


More information about the ffmpeg-user mailing list