[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH 1/3] Fix build with libdvdnav due to missing files

[Diego Biurrun]

On 2013-07-29 21:07, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 06:34:01PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On 2013-07-25 18:20, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 13:37, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>> On 2013-07-18 11:03, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>>>> Help how? I don't remember being asked about anything.
>>>>
>>>> j-b sent an email to dvdnav-discuss.
>>>
>>> Announcing his fork, yes. I read all his e-mails from the past two years
>>> and he never requested commit access. Not once.
>>
>> Yes, so?  There is no law against forking.  libdvdnav is already
>> progressing faster than it did in the past few years under the
>> VideoLAN umbrella.  Why are you (seemingly) hell-bent on sulking and
>> wasting time
>> on the zombie side of libdvdnav?
>
> You seem to have missed half the story.
> Like the ridiculous complaint about being annoyed with the
> maintainership when he himself has been one of the maintainers himself!

j-b was never a maintainer of libdvdnav.  Possibly Erik and Dominik 
were, but none had much time to devote to it.  Are you thinking of 
libdvdcss maybe?

> Not to mention the opposition to at least changing the web page to
> point so to the new repository!

Which repo would you like to point to?  The svn repo?  Erik's Git? 
Which one was official?  There was not much movement from one to the 
other, one had patches that would not land in the other ...

> I just can't understand WTF the point was in doing it like this,
> it was almost as if the idea was to try to piss on users as much
> as possible.

There are not many library users, vlc and MPlayer mostly.  End users 
come in contact through vlc.  And vlc users were pissed, yes.  libdvdnav 
accounted for most of the vlc crashes while DVD watching is only a small 
fraction of vlc usage.

libdvdnav is permanently moving to git now, with proper authorship 
information even.  People are working on it.  This is progress.

Diego