[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre8 update

Guillaume Poirier docmaintainerwannabe at laposte.net
Fri Apr 21 09:49:34 CEST 2006


Hi,

Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:51:21 +0200
> "Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>I imagine that win32 gui is out of the question for pre9? It wouldn't
>>be safe to ship such a large piece of code without having it tested
>>beforehand? (on the other hand, it merging it before release will make
>>it more likely to get more testing, as ppl will know that it exists
>>looking at the release changelog).
>>
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with win32 MPlayer. Does Windows users compile their
> MPlayer from cvs of use precompiled binaries? If it's mainly
> precompiled i think it's better to commit before release (as long as
> win32 gui is usable and not too broken).


Judging from what I read on forums, it looks like most of them take
precompiled binaries.
One thing that I forgot to mention is that AFAIR, that GUI code have
been around for some time now, and has been shipped by some of the
"official" win32 packagers, so it has already been tested quite a bit
(I guess).

Guillaume




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