[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Development (Was: Clean up demuxers)

[Daniel Egger]

Am Die, 2002-02-26 um 04.23 schrieb D Richard Felker III:

> wow, so that's where you get the ego. btw, last i checked, mplayer was
> 'bigger' by popularity, according to freshmeat. in any case,

Probably because fewer people can paint than watch movies? mplayer is
a general purpose tool, GIMP not so much of it.

> gimp is divided into tons of plugins, which makes it much easier for many
> developers to work on it at once.

Plugins are only a small part of the code and almost not touched
anymore. The real work is the core which is still quite messy...

> also, btw, gimp isn't exactly tuned for performance...

It's not slow if you're trying to imply that though the paint-core
is very old, hard to optimise but portable which is a MUST.

> i just find it offensive that you want to come here and
> impose your practices on the mplayer devs.)

I'm not imposing anything on the mplayer devs. I merely point out
options to make the project better than it already is.
 
-- 
Servus,
       Daniel