[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Binary packaging guidelines

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
> 
> > > >   - 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)

Now that lavc supports H.261 it's come down to Indeo 4/5.

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

I'm not against mandating XAnim support.

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

This is a good point.  Ideally binary packages should modify the
version string so you can always tell what people are using.

Diego