[MPlayer-cvslog] r31305 - trunk/mplayer.c

[Attila Kinali]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:01:07 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> > My view is that the result will be users en up with an outdated distro version
> > (or no ASS support at all), report ancient bugs, then compile and install
> > a new version when told and then suddenly other applications don't work
> > because they ended up using the new version but only work with the distro version.
> 
> In a year or so all distros will carry a reasonably recent version of
> libass.  Barring disastrous bugs on their side, I don't expect the kind
> of issues you describe.  Also, our internal libass is more or less
> unmaintained, the external one is...

I disagree here. libass is still a moving target. It is changing
quite fast. A distro version is likely to be very outdated by
the time it is packaged and ancient by the time it is updated.


				Attila Kinali

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