[MPlayer-G2-dev] reducing/simplifying codebase

[Nico]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

>gabucino at mplayerhq.hu writes:
> > D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > Agree mostly, but a bit undecided... It sucks for users to have to
> > > install special libs to compile a working mplayer, especially when
> > > those libs are considered "risky" by distro maintainers, and thus not
> > > included in distros.
> > So they are gonna drop it out of MPlayer too :)
> > BTW Joe User usually installs libdvd* stuff anyways, just in case.. So we
> > might actually drop mpdvdkit.
>
>I don't think Joe User does that, but since Joe User is such a
>hypothetical person, let's not speculate any further.
>
>We can also make a compromise here: Remove libmpdvdkit, but add a link
>to it on our download page and try to document it properly, something
>like "Step X: download some extra libs".  We might also build some
>all-in-one packages for greater convenience, but this is just a wild
>idea.
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mpdvdkit is guaranteed to compile and work out of the tarball, libdvd* 
dependencies aren't.
IMHO if you don't want to be pestered by     "boooh, doesn't compile" -> 
"me too" messages
in the ML it's better to keep them.

And one thing I would ADD to g2 is faad: it's always a nightmare to 
compile, as it's always half broken,
and not all of the package is needed for mplayer

> > > > Also when we port things from g1, we should consider
> > > > - dropping .raw font support, imho freetype alone is enough.
> > > Agree totally.
> > Hold the horses ;) While personally I haven't used RAW fonts for about a year,
> > the libttf-dependancy I think is a very good reason to keep RAW fonts. And on
> > top of all the shit, only recent libttf works together with MPlayer...
>
>A new library dependency will not be a problem for G2, it will just
>have an entirely new set of library dependencies, see above.  Besides
>when it will become usable and widely available moderately old libttf
>libs will be enough.
>
>Diego
>
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