[MPlayer-dev-eng] branching off rc4

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:32:51AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 09:41:43 (EDT), Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 09:32:56AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 09:13:54 (EDT), Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 08:56:37AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:07:43 (EDT), Attila Kinali wrote:
> >> >> > As ffmpeg-0.6 has been released, we should start thinking
> >> >> > about doing an rc4 release, because rc3 does not compile with
> >> >> > ffmpeg-0.6. This is a problem for all distros which whant to
> >> >> > link mplayer against the system ffmpeg/lav*.
> >> >> 
> >> >> so what's the status for rc4 now? are we ready to branch? all mentioned
> >> >> issues so far have been adressed, but I very well might have missed one
> >> >> or two?
> >> >
> >> > Well, DVD subtitles might now be a bit broken after my recent commit.
> >> > I also intend to add PGS subtitle support, however until someone oks
> >> > my API change request for FFmpeg it will leak memory.
> >> 
> >> so r31662 might be a good branch candidate then. Or did you refer to
> >> some earlier commit?
> >
> > No. If the intention is to link against ffmpeg 0.6 libgsm will be needed
> > for GSM decoding that way though, unless you go back to before the removal
> > of the native decoder (though since that one is basically an included copy
> > of libgsm I don't think you want that).
> 
> I guess for the sake of a usable release, I guess we should indeed go
> back just before the removal of the native decoder, just as you
> suggested.
> 
> this is of course suboptimal distro wise, but it seems to be the best
> option that we can do right now.

Why suboptimal?

> Attila, Diego, what do you think?

Let's just go ahead and get rc4 released.

Diego