[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre8 update

Jan Knutar jknutar at nic.fi
Fri Apr 21 03:53:37 CEST 2006


On Friday 21 April 2006 02:06, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > * Name: there are already some binary packages called pre8, so I propose
> > > to skip it and go to pre9 to avoid confusion.
> > 
> > BTW: we should kick those guys ass. This is exactly the
> > same behaviour that lead to the gcc two dot ninetysix fiasco
> > a few years ago.
> 
> Also we decided to name the next release 1.6.4. 6.4 stands for 2006
> april, and the 1 prefix is there for not incrementing major version one
> to six.

Release pre8, which is a extremely slimmed down version of MPlayer
and only prints out "This is not MPlayer". Release  MPlayer 1.9 shortly
after. Or, skip the 1 entirely, and release MPlayer 9 (my favourite).

Security stuff can become 9.x, and the next actual release, when
someone actually gets arond to it/dares do it again can become
MPlayer 10.




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