[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer SVN

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun May 28 04:10:13 CEST 2006


On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:22:38AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:54:04PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 14:50 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:40:43PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > > > 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 don't think so. Problems in ancient repository history do not cause
> > much harm in practice (even not having old history included in the
> > normal development repository at all would usually be OK), so minimizing
> > repository downtime is more important than fixing such problems. Also
> > making an already long unplanned downtime even longer is worse than one
> > day of planned downtime.
> 
> I'll see what I can do tomorrow.  Possibly I can set up the repository
> and fix some rename operations later.
> 
> There is one rename I will have to fix, though.  There is a demux_mkv.c
> file both in libmpdemux/ and libmpdemux/Attic/, this cannot be converted
> without removing one of them.  Does anybody remember the history of
> this?

I think the attic one is the crappy libmatroska demuxer.

Rich




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