[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Some modest proposals

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:35:46AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 6/11/10 7:13 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:13:19PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >>- switch to git in a way or another and put official mirrors on github
> >>and gitorious (so we might get more people involved)
> >
> >For me MPlayer also serves as a development platform for FFmpeg, which
> >also helps making sure new FFmpeg features are available sooner or
> >at least issues are known.
> >I think switching to git (not just offering it as a secondary option
> >like for FFmpeg) would be a hindrance to that.
> 
> I'd like to switch ffmpeg to git at the same time, if your concern
> is about having something as simple as svn:externals, I think git
> submodules can match pretty well the feature.

As long as that's not forgotten and we get svn-howto updated at the
same time...
The GUI situation for Git is still a bit worse, but since compiling
on Windows (and to a degree OSX) is a pain anyway I guess it doesn't
matter much.
However I think we should pick up whichever trick x264 uses to generate
"revision numbers", the hashes are really a pain for anyone trying to
support users.