[Mplayer-dev-eng] Version number

[Christoph Lampert]

>I thought that stability is main criterion of non zero Major version number.
>All bugreports about crashing of mplayer are, in general, from gcc-2.96 users.
>ToDo list and stability are difference things. If project works it should be 
realsed
>as stable to be usable by other peoples (not only by developers and testers)
>IMHO in mplayer now are fixed very serious bugs and its version should be 
incremented
>at least up to 0.50.
>0.18 would be appropriately 3 weeks ago, but not now.

Even without gcc-2.96 there are still problems with crashing codecs though. A 
version called 1.0 should not crash, when a file is broken (or the corresponding 
codec crashes), but print a (useful) message and exit. After all, this is not 
windows ;-)

gruel

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Dipl. math. Christoph Lampert (complex analysis, integral formulae)
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