[MPlayer-dev-eng] Article

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

The statement was against Redhat releasing GCC 2.96 which was not an official 
GCC release, and lots of people (using RH 7.0 back then) did have a problem...

Of course - time passed and Mandrake now uses this GCC as well as Redhat 
themselves, the problems that have been appeared before has been fixed (I 
know because I compile a LOT daily! X, KDE, QT, kernel, wine, and sometimes - 
the gcc itself) and I didn't have a single problem for a long time now (I'm 
using RH 7.2)

I think that the GCC stupid thing in configure (and check of gcc version) 
SHOULD be removed. We all understood that point back then but it's over now, 
mplayer works perfectly with GCC 2.96 on both Mandrake and Redhat 7.X

The other thing about not letting people distribute binaries is a stupid 
thing IMHO, but of course - it's the developers code, and thats their totally 
right to do so (of course - other project will simply copy the code and 
people won't need mplayer by then - but thats another issue).

Hetz

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 15:17 pm, Ben Woodhead wrote:
> Hello Everybody..
>
> I just checked out the article that was wrote about your player.. I really
> loved the responce.. "What are you doing  in linux, don't you know how to
> install a library.. "
> Anyway, what I was really impressed about was the hate for redhat.. I heard
> that you had to take statements off your site regarding 2.96.. What were
> the comments, and how did redhat get you to take it off..
> If its regarding the cvs released compiler then I can find the actually
> statement from gcc regarding this..
>
> Ben
> ps, I am not a member of you mailing list..
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