[MPlayer-cvslog] r24941 - trunk/mplayer.c

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:08:49AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:53 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:16:25PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > > Breaking gcc 4+ would not be "ignoring the rules" (no project should
> > > need an explicit rule against things like that), it would be just
> > > idiocy.
> > 
> > idiocy like breaking gcc 2.95 support? like commiting unreviewable changes?
> > yes its similar you have my agreement
> 
> gcc 2.95 has not been maintained for something like six years. It's not
> available in major Linux distributions any more (oldest gcc in Debian is

The world is not a GNU. Nor is it an 'upgrade'-fest. Unless one needs
new features there is no reason one should ever upgrade software.
Decisions that force people to upgrade one piece of software to use
another are fundamentally broken decisions.

> There are no #ifdef blocks but it still breaks from changes in just about any function.

Nonsense. BTW your mailer is broken and generating lines significantly
longer than 80 characters.

> > also i think our policy does say that people cant randomly commit to 
> > code they dont maintain
> 
> I hope not too many people insist on that any more. Strict code
> ownership is not a good development policy.

I'm glad no one cares what you think is good development policy...

Rich