[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre8 update

[Oded Shimon]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:55:37AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:17:21AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:33:41AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:59:19AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > We can discuss this on LinuxTag.  There will be enough devs there to
> > > > reach a consensus and given the nature of real life discusssions we will
> > > > come to a decision in a limited amount of time.
> > > 
> > > How convenient since me and the other people who oppose this nonsense
> > > versioning won't be there...
> > 
> > Which nonsense versioning are you talking about?  If you talk about
> > skipping 1.0 or Ubuntu schemes then rest assured that I dislike them
> > just as much as you.
> > 
> > This is a bikeshed discussion.  Two points should be clear
> 
> Get over your bikesheds dude. Did you just discover that word a few
> weeks ago? :) You're using it all the time now.
> 
> > - the current versioning scheme sucks
> > - therefore we need to replace it by some other sane scheme
> 
> In all honesty, yes, the current system sucks, especially the whole
> "pre" thing. However version number inflation, random version numbers,
> and meaningless version numbers also suck. If we really want to use
> something as meaningless as the date then we should just drop version
> numbers/releases altogether and release snapshots of known good
> versions labelled with the date....

... this... is what we do now... Our releases are nothing but CVS 
snapshots...

BTW, I have no personal preference. I don't hate/like/care about any of 
them. I'm actually still looking forward to MPlayer G5926 :P

- ods15