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

[Nico Sabbi]

Il giorno dom, 12/10/2008 alle 01.02 +0200, RVM ha scritto:
> 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.
> 

why should we release something just to workaround the total idiocy of
distribution packagers? The problem is backwards