[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] factorize print_version()

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:25:44AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 23:51 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:37:06AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > > The code can be moved back later reasonably easily, but is it really
> > > beneficial even in the short term? MEncoder is quite rotten already. As
> > > long as MEncoder is not really maintained MPlayer quality is what
> > > matters, and IMO it's worsened by changes like this.
> > 
> > I think the change is worth the trouble.
> > 
> > It will make my life easier when I fix bug 1378 and it will make my
> > life easier when I update the copyright notice next year.  So I think
> > it's beneficial in the short term and not a big deal in the long run.
> 
> That sounds like less benefit than even just the work needed to do the
> change itself...

The work is done so the point is moot IMO.
And to me it keeps sounding like the possible future trouble of moving
code around again is even smaller than the current benefit.

> > If you think print_version() should be put in a different place, I'm
> > all ears.  But basically anything that makes mplayer.c smaller cannot
> > hurt IMO.
> 
> I do intend to split mplayer.c further at some point. But I have not yet
> decided what the best way would be. Doing an arbitrary split completely
> at random or based on whether the code has something in common with
> mencoder.c is not an improvement.

Then suggest another place.  Failing that I do not see a reason to hold
off on committing this much longer.

Diego