[MPlayer-dev-eng] latest mingw network patch

Joey Parrish joey at nicewarrior.org
Mon Jun 9 15:28:04 CEST 2003


On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 06:06:01AM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> Also consider that someone using mplayer as a part of a cygwin
> environment will want it to use unix-style paths, and will be very
> annoyed if it only support ms-style ones (which will be the case if
> it's built mingw-only). You're viewing the whole situation from the
> perspective of an ordinary windows user who wants a windows app, and
> that's ok, but keep in mind that not everyone has the same
> perspective. I maintain that there is NO REASON to require cygwin
> users to build mplayer for a mingw target when the existing cygwin
> target works perfectly fine.

Good point.  I see what you mean.  Okay, then, I take it all back.  :)

Thanks,
--Joey



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