[MPlayer-dev-eng] The road to rc1

[Nico Sabbi]

Benjamin Zores wrote:

>On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:15:24 +0200
>"Hervé W." <H.O.W.aka.V+mplayer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Possibly releasing a RC0 (so not really a RC) instead of RC1 on the
>>"deadline" has a certain appeal and thus giving dvdnav (and only
>>dvdnav?) a second chance to make the deadline.
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><joke>Why not RC(-1) then ;-)</joke>
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>Imho it's pointless releasing because of time schedule.
>We all want dvdnav in, so let's just start applying otvos' patch.
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when you begin reading that patch, as I did, you wil realize that little 
of it
can be committed as it is; most of his code needs a lot of rework

>I'll take less time to adapt it to MPlayer and make it work than to
>flame and think on how and when will be the "less worse moment to start
>considering thinking of applying it".
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not at all

>The current consideration looks like a company approach who has fear of
>doing changes to it's product cause it might break things and delay release.
>Thinking is a waste of time, performing is better :)
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>Ben
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releasing anything else than a daily svn snapshot is totally pointless 
and harmful, IMO