Note that I am upstream for both MPlayer and FFmpeg. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:35:49PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Reinhard Tartler schrieb: > >I know that it is tricky, but I still think that for the problem we are > >facing, this is an acceptable solution. YMMV of course. > > Fine, but how about all the other packages that depend on ffmpeg, like > gstreamer, vlc and xine. They do also ship embedded copies of ffmpeg > source code. I fear these packages could suffer from the decision to > gear our ffmpeg library packages to mplayer releases.
All packages already suffer from being tied to a specific FFmpeg release. Building against another FFmpeg version is a rather big change from the upstream releases. > >From the last remarks I have heared from upstream is that they want to > >wait this year's GOC and integrate the results from that. After that a > >release could indeed happen, depending on the available manpower, of > >course. > >Short: there is not enough interest in maintaining stable releases. This > >means additional efford for: > > - tracking bugs > > - fixing bugs > > - write release notes > >etc. > > Come on, thousands of even smaller software projects face these > problems regularly and nevertheless get releases going. The problem is that many people request releases, but nobody is willing to step up to help with releases. Obviously none of the current FFmpeg developers has a problem with the way things are handled right now and there are always more interesting things than fixing other people's issues... > >FFMpeg and Mplayer developers have a rather large overlap. I cannot > >imagine that you can convince them to restrict themselves to the public > >ffmpeg api, but good luck with that! > > Then they shouldn't distinguish between these two projects While there is a large overlap, the projects are most definitely not the same. Also, I think it is always a bad idea to tell other projects what they should or should not do. If I voiced my opinion about what the Debian project should do with the same amount of conviction, I'm sure you guys would take me out back and beat me up ;-) Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
