[MPlayer-dev-eng] where have the old daily releases gone to?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:11:59PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
> Corey Hickey wrote:
> 
> > Dirk wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like to pinpoint a possible bug, and I'd like to do that with two
> >> older releases. I mean those mplayer-20020bla.tar.gz archives.
> >>
> >> I'd like to beg for a reply describing me place where they have gone to.
> >>
> >> I'm NOT interested in "Why?" or "I know better..." stuff.
> >>
> >> Dirk
> >>
> >
> > You might be interested in the -D option to cvs. For instance, to check
> > out CVS from June 1, use:
> > $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co \
> > -D"2003-06-01" main
> >
> > There are more fine-tuned controls to -D. man cvs to find out. :)
> >
> > -Corey
> 
> 
> 
> That's GREAT!!! - Unfortunately libavcodec comes from sf's cvs which is
> a pain in the ass for anonymous users...
> 
> So, if someone just could tell me where those fucking archives with old
> MPlayer releases have gone to... ANYONE, is it so hard to pull that
> information out of your ass instead of giving useless cvs advices?

They've probably been rm'd since no one likes filling up hard drives
with hundreds of old daily snapshots. BTW, sourceforge cvs is
(finally!) fixed now, as far as I can tell, so it shouldn't be a
problem anymore. Just follow the directions in the README.

Rich