[MPlayer-DOCS] 0.92

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Dec 16 09:17:54 CET 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:49:33AM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attila Kinali wrote:
> 
> >As now 0.92 is considered obsolete and most likely contains security
> >holes, could you please remove it from the website ?
> 
> I'm not sure to understand what is the purpose of doing this (other than 
> making clear that 0.92 is an old dude that we don't want to hear about)...
> There still hasn't been a "normal" 1.0 release (just "-pre" ones), so it 
> looks to me that tagging the upcoming "-pre6" to a "-rc" and then 1.0 
> should be done beforehand. Am I wrong about this?
> 
> Plus, removing old releases IMHO is quite a bummer as some people might 
> want to hack some old releases for X or Y reasons of their own (one 
> could be that the codebase beeing smaller, it could be easier to figure 
> out, but that's a pure guess).

Don't remove the actual file, but remove the link to it from the
download page and just have it with old releases on the ftp..

Rich




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