[MPlayer-users] When will there be a new release?

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El Sábado, 11 de Octubre de 2008 16:02, Andrew Savchenko escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 11 October 2008 13:15, Manuel Reimer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Release 1.0rc2 is pretty old. Is there any chance to see a new
> > release soon, now as the current release is older than one year?
>
> Have you tried the svn head?

I normally use the svn version, but I also think a new release is necessary. 
The problem I see is that linux distros usually include the latest version 
available in the mplayer web, it seems they are reluctant to include a 
version taken from svn (for instance I think the new version of ubuntu will 
still include 1.0rc2). So many, many people would still use a very old 
version just because that's the one that comes with their distros.

I know, I read, the problem is that currently there's no one that could make a 
new release, but... a suggestion: what about to make a quick source-only 
release? Just take the current code from svn, change the version to 1.0rc3, 
generate the html docs, and upload the package to the web. Let the distros' 
maintainers to do the binary packages.

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