[MPlayer-dev-eng] Use Sherpya's Build as official win32 1.0rc2 build

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:10:03AM +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:02:10AM +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:25:43AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:16:17AM +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:43:21AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:40:09PM -0500, Compn wrote:
> > > > > > sherpya was kind enough to build a non-patched rc2 for this very
> > > > > > purpose.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
> > > > > > links to the sourceforge hosted rc2 binary.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Since none of the usual suspects has stepped forward to create a build,
> > > > > I'm all for it.  Now the next thing we need is a Windows GUI build.
> > > > 
> > > > already in:
> > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=205275&use_mirror=surfnet&filename=mplayer-gui-rtm-1.0rc2.7z&89122889
> > > > 
> > > > (rtm = runtime cpu detection, not official acronym but I like it)
> > > 
> > > Both of your packages sport the epitome of bad packaging practice and
> > > unpack into the current directory instead of into a subdirectory.  Plus,
> > > the path mplayer/Skins/ is ugly and obsolete, we switched to skins/ a
> > > long time ago...
> > > 
> > > Also note that you misspell MPlayer.
> > 
> > Yes sir
> 
> I've changed texts on my site, and sourceforge to fix mispelling

Thanks.

> I've repackaged the rc2 as you suggested, but the win32 still needs the Skin
> directory inside mplayer directory.
> Next releases will have the correct directory layout

You use capitalized ugly 'Skins', but just 'skins' should work as well.

> Please tell me if I should modify the win32 gui to
> pick Skin directory directly (or perhaps I'm doing something wrong)

Compare your package with the one we have for download.  Off the top of
my head I notice that you include neither the license text nor the
manual page.

Diego