[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Binary packaging guidelines

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > >   - X11/Xvideo/DGA
> > 
> > Methinks that DGA is obsolete, so no need to require it.
> 
> Is it? We have a big section about it in the docs. And it doesn't require
> any additional libs.

i generally agree that every feature which doesnt need external libs or
other dependencies and has no nig overhead on binary size should be included.

> > >   - FAAD(internal)
> > >   - libavcodec
> > 
> > I'd leave using internal or external FAAD open.  What about
> > libavcodec?  What are the drawbacks of not building it statically?
> 
> Well, the obvious one is that MPlayer requires the latest lavc snapshot
> and though there might be another shared lavc installed in the system,
> it is usually a "relase", so it's old and incompatible with MPlayer.

lavc keep changing every day, its hard to find a matching version...
dunno about faad, i think there is some reason of having own version
of it included...

> > >   - XAnim codecs support
> > 
> > That's not a mandatory feature, all of the codecs provided by XAnim
> > libraries are available elsewhere.
> 
> By Windows DLLs. I prefer Linux libs over DLLs. At least loading them
> is more reliable, I understand. But OK, if anyone else tells me to drop
> it, I will.

on x86 linux, yes, there are win32 dlls.
on non-x86, xanim is the only way to play indeo 5 and some others.
(xanim codecs are available for many archs and OSes)

i vote for keeping it, the xanim wrapper is very little code, and
does not have ext. dependencies.

anyway, for version.h modification, we(you) need to agree on some
common format.


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