[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC][PATCH]removing gmplayer

Anton Khirnov wyskas at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 07:37:32 CEST 2009


On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:30:30PM -0400, compn wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:45:10 +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> >
> >Hi,
> >i think it's time to finally remove gmplayer. It's ugly and unmaintained
> >and apparently no devs even use it. People who ask for help in #mplayer
> >are always just told to use SMPlayer or some other frontend. Also it
> >seems that most its users simply don't know that there are other (much
> >better) options than gmplayer.
> >
> >I'm attaching a patch that removes it, except for the 'svn rm gui/'
> >part, because it'd make the patch too big.
> >
> >Comments?
> >
> >Anton Khirnov
> 
> you missed some stuff in DOCS/tech/ and DOCS/xml/.
> 

Done locally, i'll send updated patch after some more comments.

>
> did you test this patch? did it make mplayer binary any smaller? :)
>

Sure, works here. And it's OVER 900 bytes smaller ;)

Anton Khirnov



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