[MPlayer-G2-dev] Re: G2 CLI/GUI

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:14:17PM +0200, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My last question for today I promise.
> 
> > >     I'm also! :)  But may be anyway we have to scan all available modules
> > > at startup (don't load but check) - I don't think if check only by file
> > > name is enough.
> >
> > Not acceptable. This sort of bloated slow startup nonsense is what I
> > expect from stuff like mozilla and gimp, not mplayer!
> 
> Ok. How are you going to add plugins to g2 without asking/waiting for weeks
> for somebody to commit your plugin to cvs ? You can make patch or fork mplayer 
> too, but distributing a binary (+ source) is IMHO more flexible and 
> convenient. 

Huh? I didn't say anything about plugins being bad. What I said was
that it's not acceptable to scan/load them all at startup. MPlayer
MUST only load the stuff specifically requested by the user, so that
it starts instantly.

Rich