[MPlayer-cvslog] r19789 - trunk/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:23:15PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:05:55PM +0200, diego wrote:
> > 
> > --- trunk/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt	(original)
> > +++ trunk/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt	Sun Sep 10 14:05:54 2006
> > @@ -88,6 +88,13 @@
> >  last "release" version of FFmpeg, which is quite old and will usually not
> >  function correctly with MPlayer.
> >  
> > +Support for binary codecs MUST be present but it MUST NOT result in a hard
> > +dependency on a binary codecs package. MPlayer is fully functional without
> > +external binary codecs. If you package binary codecs yourself, package the
> > +essential codecs package, not the all codecs package.
> 
> IMO this makes no sense. Only i386 arch supports binary codecs...

No.  We also have binary codecs for PPC and Alpha, they also exist for
SPARC.  Windows DLLs only work on x86, but binary codecs are more than
that.

> Does this mean packages for all other archs are nonconformant? :)

I'm fine with changing this to SHOULD.

Diego