[MPlayer-dev-eng] release alongside FFmpeg

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 02 February 2009 17:10:48 Georgi Petrov wrote:
> > Is it so important what diSAstros package?
>
> Yes. Perhaps most people use exactly what their distro packages and
> very few download from svn and compile. Imagine what would be like
> to have for example mass deployment of VDPAU one year after it's
> ready? It would be a waste.
>
> >Whether users report bugs preset in a  1-day old or 1-year old
> > release is irrelevant: they'll be still using old code.
>
> Well, changing to a 2 week-release cycle and starting from 1.0
> means that most distros will send updates to all users few
> hours/days after a new 1.x release is released.
>
> Then the answer to "I have xyz bug in my Ubuntu's MPlayer-1.10"
> would be "run apt-get update, because it's fixed in 1.11".
>

no, in 2 weeks there's still a 13-days timeframe during which the code 
won't be in sync and we'll have to waste time and bandwidth repeating 
the usual stuff.
Trying to fit with the habits of packagers leads nowhere IMO, for this 
reason I *never* do releases