[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] How to build MPlayerOSX

[The Wanderer]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Hi there,
> Here's a patch that explains how to build MPlayer OSX, based on
> Nicolas Plourde explanations.
> I'm sure that patch needs a bit of polish, and probably would need
> someone with such a machine to try the directions of the build
> process to see if it does work, or if smth is missing.

I'm not in a position to comment on the technical aspects (seeing as how
I'd have to bug a few other people in order to even get access to a
system running OSX), but on the more superficial level:

> +You can get the latest source from cvs:

I'm not certain that "CVS" shouldn't be capitalized here, since AFAICT
it refers not to the command name but to the CVS repository (i.e., it's
an abbreviation for the noun phrase "the CVS repository"). I wouldn't
kick up too much of a fuss if it were left as is, though.

> +In order to build <application>MPlayerOSX</application> you will need to
> +setup something like this:

"set up"

> +Run <systemitem>./configure</systemitem> and build mplayer in
> +<systemitem>main</systemitem> and <systemitem>main_noaltivec</systemitem>
> +go to the <systemitem>mplayerosx</systemitem> dir and do
> +<systemitem>make</systemitem> or <systemitem>make dist</systemitem> to
> +create a .dmg of <application>MPlayerOSX</application>.

I don't see a sentence break (or a new bullet point, or anything
similar) between "main_noaltivec" and "go to the" et cetera. I'd
probably break with a period and use "Then go to the".

> +
> +You can also use the xcode 2.1 project: the old one is not working.

If I'm understanding this correctly ("versions of xcode older than 2.1
do not work for this purpose"), then I would say "older versions" or
"the older version" - or even "the old version" or "the previous
version" if there was only one - rather than "the old one".

Other than that, it looks good to me, at least grammatically.


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