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

[The Wanderer]

Christian Lohmaier wrote:

> But I for myself really don't understand why there is so much
> rejection against publishing a new tarball. I mean: You don't want
> users report bugs with old versions. Users don't want to checkout the
> code themselves, they prefer tarballs or at least would love to have
> some tag to checkout with (instead of using trunk).

There are those among the developers who have in the past taken the
position that releases are a bad thing because they encourage users to
use (and, therefore, report bugs against) the released version; since
this is not the most recent SVN version, the bug reports are not what
the developers want (since it could have been fixed since then), and the
users are at a disadvantage in that they are not picking up whatever
improvements or fixes may be made.

That said, I have been under the impression (never really checked that I
remember for certain) that there *is* a more-or-less-regular tarball
'release' made available for download, and as long as it isn't labeled
as being a release I don't know why anyone would object to there being
such a thing.

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       The Wanderer

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