libavcodec directory (was: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] codecs.html clarification)

[Diego Biurrun]

Felix Buenemann writes:
 > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 20:36, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > D Richard Felker III writes:
 > >  >
 > >  > Out of curiousity, why does this fake libavcodec dir even exist? It
 > >  > just seems to confuse new users to CVS, and it's a pain to rm -rf it
 > >  > before copying the real one into place...
 > >
 > > Why not simply put the CVS directory from the FFmpeg libavcodec
 > > directory into its place?  That way all these instructions would
 > > become unnecessary.  All you have to do is say 'cvs update' ...
 > 
 > I've just got another funny idea, what about having libavcodec sources right 
 > inside mplayer main/ cvs and have a cronjob at mphq that updates it regularly 
 > from sf?

Yes, the current situation is a little bizarre.  The libavcodec
directory serves no purpose right now, it's just in the way when you
try to install FFmpeg libavcodec.  I believe we have 3 options:

- Remove the directory entirely.
  Easiest solution, people will still have to get libavcodec
  separately, but less confusion.

- Have a cronjob update libavcodec regularly.
  Does not sound bad, saves the installation troubles, will cost some
  bandwidth.

- Put the FFmpeg libavcodec CVS subdirectory into the MPlayer CVS
  tree.
  Saves bandwidth, is probably a gross hack.  No idea if this breaks
  the moment something about the FFmpeg CVS repository changes.

What shall we do?

Diego