[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer SVN

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:40:43PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 22:16 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > Converting the FFmpeg repository took one week, MPlayer will take much
> > > longer (assuming somebody wants to do it).
> > > Honestly i don't think we should care about fixing everything,
> > > expecially 3 years or older stuff.
> > 
> > I started this, I'm willing to finish it.  Yes, the MPlayer repo is
> 
> First question should be whether it's worth doing even if someone is
> willing to do it. Of course it's nice if you're willing to work on the
> history, but if that means you're not willing to have the repo up until
> a day or more later then I think it is a net loss.

I think you're overestimating what one day is worth...

> > I'll also have to note here that fixing renames is not everything that
> > makes the conversion tedious.  The CVS repositories have bugs like some
> > files wrongly checked in as binary (or vice versa).  They can end up as
> > garbage after the conversion or be undiffable.
> 
> What other bugs besides bad flags for the files?

Wrong executable flags on files.  Files that had been removed and
readded under the same name (this was a problem in the skins
repository).

> > I would find it refreshing if there were some volunteers to help me out
> > during the conversion.  Tasks like looking over logs and examining CVS
> > snapshots or mailing list archives surely are not terribly exciting, but
> 
> Is there any need to examine mailing list archives as long as renames
> are ignored?

No.

Diego